3～4岁幼儿冷热自我调节的发展趋势及性别差异——一项纵向研究

自我调节是个体发展和社会化的重要标志,在学前阶段发展迅速。研究选取白天-黑夜、头脚任务、延迟等待等实验范式,考察219名3岁幼儿一年内（3次测试）冷热自我调节的发展趋势及性别差异。结果表明：（1）二因素模型拟合显著好于单因素模型,冷热两成分中度相关;（2）幼儿的冷自我调节中度稳定,热自我调节中低度稳定;（3）幼儿的抑制控制与延迟等待随年龄增加而提高,女孩的延迟等待提高后保持稳定;（4）整体来看,幼儿的抑制控制和延迟等待存在显著性别差异,但具体来看,女孩的抑制控制仅在早期高于男孩,在延迟等待方面却始终高于男孩。结论：3~4岁女孩的冷热自我调节发展不同步,女孩的“性别优势”只在热自我调节上始终存在。     

心理剧中的替身概念:具身模拟的视角

替身技巧是心理剧治疗的核心技巧之一,主张通过对主角的身体模仿来理解主角。具身模拟理论认为,理解是基于镜像神经机制的心理模拟。文章梳理、分析了替身技巧和具身模拟的概念和内含,并将二者相结合,在神经生理的层面上揭示了替身技巧的治疗机制与操作原理,以期通过认知神经研究来考察和解释替身技巧的效能。     

Marital satisfaction in covenant versus standard marriages: Is there a difference?

After the rapid increase of the American divorce rate in the late 20th century, one of the most conspicuous efforts of the marriage movement in the 1990s that was used to increase marital stability was the legislation of the covenant marriage license, a more restricted marriage license issued in three different states of the U.S. To investigate the marital life of newlywed covenant versus standard couples, a large-scale 5-year couple study was conducted between 1998 and 2003 in Louisiana. The present study uses this large-sample, multiple-wave, multiple-group dyadic dataset to examine differences in co-development and divorce rates in 297 covenant and 380 standard mixed-sex couples using a multiple group growth curve modeling and survival analysis. We examined differences in marital trajectories between covenant and standard couples as well as between husbands and wives in each marital group. The results show (1) that the couples in both groups experienced, on average, declines in marital satisfaction, and such a decline was slower in covenant husbands than their wives as well as those in standard marriages, and (2) that co-development in marital satisfaction was more prominent in standard marriages than in covenant marriages, meaning standard couple's marital satisfaction declined at a more similar rate than that of covenant couples. We provide possible explanations and discuss practical implications.     

Multisensory spatial representations in eye-centered coordinates for reaching

Humans can reach for objects with their hands whether the objects are seen, heard or touched. Thus, the position of objects is recoded in a joint-centered frame of reference regardless of the sensory modality involved. Our study indicates that this frame of reference is not the only one shared across sensory modalities. The location of reaching targets is also encoded in eye-centered coordinates, whether the targets are visual, auditory, proprioceptive or imaginary. Furthermore, the remembered eye-centered location is updated after each eye and head movement. This is quite surprising since, in principle, a reaching motor command can be computed from any non-visual modality without ever recovering the eye-centered location of the stimulus. This finding may reflect the predominant role of vision in human spatial perception.     

连续和同时线索化条件下的返回抑制容量

利用线索-靶子模式进行了返回抑制容量的两个实验。实验一对外周数个位置连续线索化,实验二对外周数个位置同时线索化。结果表明：(1)在连续线索化条件下,当线索化位置是相邻时,返回抑制容量可以达到4个,当线索化位置是间隔时,返回抑制容量只有1个。(2)在同时线索化条件下．当线索化位置是相邻时,返回抑制容量可以达到3个,当线索化位置是间隔时．返回抑制容量只有1个。结果支持认为存在着两种不同的返回抑制的观点,即一种是弥散性的,其容量较大;另一种是集中性的,其容量只有一个。     

特殊儿童个案研究资料收集的方法

本文介绍了特殊儿童个案研究中资料收集的三种重要方法：观察法、访谈法和档案资料法。本文较详细地介绍了各种方法的定义、性质,包含的不同类型,不同角色的研究者与被试之间的关系,以及怎样合理利用不同方法获得的资料等。这三种方法各有自己的优点和缺点,为保证研究资料的多样性和有效性,在个案研究中常常是联合运用的。     

工作记忆与领域知识在个体认知行为中的作用

新近研究表明,工作记忆和领域知识在个体认知行为上起了积极的作用,对二者关系的研究有三种观点：一是强调工作记忆或领域知识在认知行为中的单独作用;二是综合考察二者在个体认知行为中的不同作用;三是建立模型,阐述工作记忆和领域知识在认知行为中的作用。最后针对当前有关此方面的研究,探讨有关工作记忆和领域知识作用研究的发展趋势。     

成年个体的心理理论与执行功能

为了说明成年个体心理理论与执行功能的发展及两者的关系,在匹配了智商和教育水平条件下,采用心理理论故事理解任务、失言理解任务和威斯康星卡片分类任务分别探察了30名62~77岁的老年人和30名19~25岁青年人的心理理论和执行功能。结果表明,老年人和青年人在2种心理理论任务上的得分与卡片分类任务的得分都不存在显著相关,老年人在失言任务上的得分显著低于青年人,在心理理论故事理解任务上和威斯康星卡片分类任务上,老年人的表现与青年人没有显著差异。结合已有的研究结果提示：心理理论与执行功能的相关模式在成年和学前阶段是不同的。