CENTRE FOR FAMILY RESEARCH SEMINAR: "Supporting the development of young children’s cognitive skills

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• Dr Andrew Ribner, University of Pittsburgh
• Monday 05 June 2023, 11:00-12:00
• Hybrid: Cockcroft Building, 4th Floor, Centre for Family Research / Zoom (please contact lg648@cam.ac.uk for the link) .

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Louise Gray.

Our front door will be unlocked - come and find us in the Meeting Room at the end of the corridor, by the kitchen. Light refreshments provided. Open to all members of the University.

Young children develop a range of cognitive skills that allow them to succeed in academic and social settings in the years to come. These propensities for learning (and life success more broadly) emerge as a product of opportunities provided by parents, caregivers, and characteristics of children’s environments. In this talk, I will first describe the opportunity-propensity organizing framework and contextualize it within more widely known models of child development. I will then provide evidence that to optimize skill development in early childhood, we must look at the intersection of opportunities and propensities. To do this, I will use data from play-based interactions across studies with one- to four-year-old children. Implications for intervention, parenting, and further research will be discussed.

This talk is part of the Centre for Family Research Seminar Series series.

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