The Social Cognitive Preschooler: A Comprehensive Study of Children Luke Remy

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The Social Cognitive Preschooler A Comprehensive
Study of ChildrenLuke Remy Dr. Jeff
CookstonDepartment of Psychology, San Francisco
State University, San Francisco CA
lremy_at_mail.sfsu.edu
Discussion and Implications
This poster attempted to sum up several months of
research, planning, and data collection involved
in our study of the socioemotional and cognitive
development of preschool children. Although we
only report a small set of results as relates to
cognitive development in this poster, we will
soon finish data collection for our first cohort.
We should double our sample size with the arrival
of the next preschool cohort, and will be able to
make more confident claims with our findings due
to an increase in statistical power. With this in
mind, we also hope to adapt our study with future
participants to capture a more full picture of
preschool development. As hinted at in the
cognition section above, participants gave a wide
range of responses during the animism and dream
interviews, and some participants may have a more
clear understanding of the concepts of animism
and dreams. We hope to develop a coding system to
glean information from the animism and dream
interviews regarding preschoolers development of
Theory of Mind, which we can then analyze for
individual differences among the participants.
Other revisions to the study currently being
discussed are including a language task to assess
childrens expressive vocabulary, and updating
the toy preference stimulus materials used during
the TPT-R.