Ellin Kofsky Scholnick
Biographic Data
| ID | 3529798 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ellin Kofsky Scholnick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ellin Kofsky |
| FAMILY NAME | Scholnick |
| SIGNATURE | SCHOLNICK E K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Feminist theory and contemporary developmental psychology: The case of children’s executive function
Burman’s landmark book, Deconstructing Developmental Psychology, criticized the field from three perspectives: decontextualized measurements and depictions of children’s behavior; androcentric biases; and covert political frameworks. In this article, Burman’s analysis is applied to the current state of cognitive developmental research in general, and then specifically with a focus on a hot topic, children’s executive function (cognitive self-cont…
Is A Feminist Developmental Psychology an Oxymoron
Nancy Sagrid Anderson (1930-2007)
Scientists as Sages: The Perils of Dispensing Advice in a Postmodern World
The language of thinking: Metacognitive and conditional words
The consistency of human behavior, such as it is, is due entirely to the fact men have formulated their desires, and subsequently rationalized them, in terms of words.... For evil, then, as well as for good, words make us the human beings we actually are.Huxley (1962, pp. 4–5)
Speaking deductively: Preschoolers' use of If in conversation and in conditional inference
Conversations taped in the homes and preschools of 39 four-year-olds were used to determine whether children and adults spoke the type of if sentence found in conditional syllogisms, whether children made conditional deductions during conversation, and whether adult speech influenced children's use of if in conversation and deduction
Changing predictors of map use in wayfinding
Map use to guide travel may require skill in encoding information from a terrain and a map, finding a match between the two, and maintaning the match despite directional shifts from turns on a route. To test this analysis194 4-to 6-yr.-olds used maps to locate the route to a goal through a network of paths with blind alleys. Two tasks were used as predictors of skill in map use. Laurendeau and Pinard's test of the localization of topological posi…
Knowing when you don't know: Developmental and situational considerations
The language of mind: Statements about mental states
Contextual constraints on usage of cognitive words
Understanding the language of reasoning: Cognitive, linguistic, and developmental influences
Evaluating presuppositions and propositions
Some conjunctions simultaneously convey speakers' presuppositions about the validity of propositions uttered and assertions of particular interclausal relations. Because conveys belief, if + indicative, uncertainty and if + subjunctive, disbelief. While all three conjuctions assert positive entailment, unless , which like if + indicative presupposes uncertainty, asserts negative entailment or denial. The relationship between pragmatic knowledge a…
The pragmatics of subordinating conjunctions: A second look
Some subordinating conjunctions reveal whether speakers believe the propositions the conjunctions connect and how speakers believe propositions are connected. Because and although express belief; if + indicative and unless uncertainty, and if + subjunctive, disbelief. Because, if + indicative and if + subjunctive express a positive entailment relation between clauses while although and unless express negative entailment. To validate this analysis…
Children's comprehension of pragmatic concepts expressed in ‘because’, ‘although’, ‘if’ and ‘unless’
First, third, and fifth graders judged a speaker's belief about entailment and propositional truth in sentences containing five subordinating conjunction-verb combinations: if, because, although, unless combined with indicative verbs, and if with a subjunctive verb. Children were more accurate when a speaker believed the truth of his utterance ( because and although ) than when he voiced disbelief ( if + subjunctive) or doubt ( unless and if + in…
An experimental investigation of adult perception of one-word utterances
In order to examine the extent to which adult judgments of first words depend on visual and auditory cues, spontaneous utterances were collected for boys and girls of 1; 5, 1; 6 and 1; 10 as well as adults naming the same toys. Vocalizations clearly appropriate to the original visual context were dubbed onto new contexts varying in the number of phonetic features (0-2) by which the first phoneme of the utterance differed from the initial phoneme …
Adult judgments of age and linguistic differences in infant vocalization
College students judged the relative ages of pairs of vocalizations sampled either from a Chinese infant at 0; 6, 1; 0 and 1; 6 or from an American infant at the same ages. The judgments were 88% accurate, with the easiest judgments contrasting the 0; 6 and 1; 6 samples (96% accurate). With one exception, age contrasts for the Chinese infant were as easy to judge as those for the American infant. However, a second sample of college students was u…
Effect of pretest experience on concept attainment in lower- and middle-class children
Contextual constraints on usage of cognitive words
Understanding the language of reasoning: Cognitive, linguistic, and developmental influences
Knowing when you don't know: Developmental and situational considerations
The language of mind: Statements about mental states
Speaking deductively: Preschoolers' use of If in conversation and in conditional inference
Conversations taped in the homes and preschools of 39 four-year-olds were used to determine whether children and adults spoke the type of if sentence found in conditional syllogisms, whether children made conditional deductions during conversation, and whether adult speech influenced children's use of if in conversation and deduction
Effect of pretest experience on concept attainment in lower- and middle-class children
Adult judgments of age and linguistic differences in infant vocalization
College students judged the relative ages of pairs of vocalizations sampled either from a Chinese infant at 0; 6, 1; 0 and 1; 6 or from an American infant at the same ages. The judgments were 88% accurate, with the easiest judgments contrasting the 0; 6 and 1; 6 samples (96% accurate). With one exception, age contrasts for the Chinese infant were as easy to judge as those for the American infant. However, a second sample of college students was u…
An experimental investigation of adult perception of one-word utterances
In order to examine the extent to which adult judgments of first words depend on visual and auditory cues, spontaneous utterances were collected for boys and girls of 1; 5, 1; 6 and 1; 10 as well as adults naming the same toys. Vocalizations clearly appropriate to the original visual context were dubbed onto new contexts varying in the number of phonetic features (0-2) by which the first phoneme of the utterance differed from the initial phoneme …
Children's comprehension of pragmatic concepts expressed in ‘because’, ‘although’, ‘if’ and ‘unless’
First, third, and fifth graders judged a speaker's belief about entailment and propositional truth in sentences containing five subordinating conjunction-verb combinations: if, because, although, unless combined with indicative verbs, and if with a subjunctive verb. Children were more accurate when a speaker believed the truth of his utterance ( because and although ) than when he voiced disbelief ( if + subjunctive) or doubt ( unless and if + in…
The pragmatics of subordinating conjunctions: A second look
Some subordinating conjunctions reveal whether speakers believe the propositions the conjunctions connect and how speakers believe propositions are connected. Because and although express belief; if + indicative and unless uncertainty, and if + subjunctive, disbelief. Because, if + indicative and if + subjunctive express a positive entailment relation between clauses while although and unless express negative entailment. To validate this analysis…
Evaluating presuppositions and propositions
Some conjunctions simultaneously convey speakers' presuppositions about the validity of propositions uttered and assertions of particular interclausal relations. Because conveys belief, if + indicative, uncertainty and if + subjunctive, disbelief. While all three conjuctions assert positive entailment, unless , which like if + indicative presupposes uncertainty, asserts negative entailment or denial. The relationship between pragmatic knowledge a…
Understanding the language of reasoning: Cognitive, linguistic, and developmental influences
The language of mind: Statements about mental states
Contextual constraints on usage of cognitive words
Knowing when you don't know: Developmental and situational considerations
Changing predictors of map use in wayfinding
Map use to guide travel may require skill in encoding information from a terrain and a map, finding a match between the two, and maintaning the match despite directional shifts from turns on a route. To test this analysis194 4-to 6-yr.-olds used maps to locate the route to a goal through a network of paths with blind alleys. Two tasks were used as predictors of skill in map use. Laurendeau and Pinard's test of the localization of topological posi…
The language of thinking: Metacognitive and conditional words
The consistency of human behavior, such as it is, is due entirely to the fact men have formulated their desires, and subsequently rationalized them, in terms of words.... For evil, then, as well as for good, words make us the human beings we actually are.Huxley (1962, pp. 4–5)
Speaking deductively: Preschoolers' use of If in conversation and in conditional inference
Conversations taped in the homes and preschools of 39 four-year-olds were used to determine whether children and adults spoke the type of if sentence found in conditional syllogisms, whether children made conditional deductions during conversation, and whether adult speech influenced children's use of if in conversation and deduction
Scientists as Sages: The Perils of Dispensing Advice in a Postmodern World
Nancy Sagrid Anderson (1930-2007)
Is A Feminist Developmental Psychology an Oxymoron
Feminist theory and contemporary developmental psychology: The case of children’s executive function
Burman’s landmark book, Deconstructing Developmental Psychology, criticized the field from three perspectives: decontextualized measurements and depictions of children’s behavior; androcentric biases; and covert political frameworks. In this article, Burman’s analysis is applied to the current state of cognitive developmental research in general, and then specifically with a focus on a hot topic, children’s executive function (cognitive self-cont…
Psychology (17 works) · Cognitive psychology (11 works) · Linguistics (9 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (8 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Language Development and Disorders (7 works) · Cognition (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (4 works)