Marcovitch, Stuart

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Examining the benefits of feedback: are monitoring skills implicated in successful performance? 2009 2075 The current set of experiments was designed to investigate whether monitoring skills are implicated in the effectiveness of receiving feedback on performance. This was examined by determining whether receiving feedback improves the retention of corre...
Patterns of self–other overlap in children 2016 741 Self–other overlap is a multi-dimensional construct; however, little is known about the characterization of these dimensions through early to middle childhood. The present work introduced several adapted measures for investigating the early developme...
The use of mindfulness training to examine the role of executive function in preschool peer conflict 2017 1096 Children’s responses to peer conflict are important for the development of positive peer relationships and are an indication of children’s overall level of social competence. Past research has shown that children with lower levels of executive functi...
Labeling and Representation in a Multistep Multilocation Search Task with 2.5- to 3-Year-Old Children 2007 2153 Few studies have examined the development of executive function in children younger than 3 years of age. At this age, language may allow children to reflect upon stronger representations which in turn may influence the control of behavior. The presen...
The cost of event-based prospective memory in children 2008 2027 Prospective memory is remembering to perform an action in the future when a cue is presented. However, processes involved in remembering the future intention (i.e., preparatory attentional processes) might hinder performance on activities leading u...
The relationship between executive function and joint attention in the second year of life 2012 5392 Several theories of cognitive control or executive function (EF) propose that EF development corresponds to children's ability to form and reflect on represented stimuli in the environment. However, research on early EF is primarily conducted with pr...
Development of the enactment effect: examining individual differences in executive function to predict increased memory for action 2013 2466 The enactment effect, remembering self-performed action phrases better than identical phrases learned verbally, is a robust effect documented in many studies with adults and older children. Evidence for the enactment effect in children younger than 8...
Revisiting the association between executive function and social competence : a process-oriented account of social and moral development 2021 247 The goal of the current dissertation study was to examine the longitudinal association between executive function (EF) and social competence (SC). Previous research has shown that SC in peer conflict situations is an important skill and that EF suppo...
The relations between temporal memory abilities, time knowledge, executive function, and language in early and middle childhood 2022 97 The current dissertation was designed to examine relations between temporal memory abilities, time knowledge, executive function (EF) components, and language in early and middle childhood. Time is an essential feature of episodic memory—memory for e...