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Profile Effects In Early Bilingual Language And Literacy, D. Kimbrough Oller, Alan Cobo-Lewis, Barbara Z. Pearson
Profile Effects In Early Bilingual Language And Literacy, D. Kimbrough Oller, Alan Cobo-Lewis, Barbara Z. Pearson
Psychology Faculty Scholarship
Bilingual children's language and literacy is stronger in some domains than others. Reanalysis of data from a broad-scale study of monolingual English and bilingual Spanish-English learners in Miami provided a clear demonstration of "profile effects," where bilingual children perform at varying levels compared to monolinguals across different test types. The profile effects were strong and consistent across conditions of socioeconomic status, language in the home, and school setting (two way or English immersion). The profile effects indicated comparable performance of bilingual and monolingual children in basic reading tasks, but lower vocabulary scores for the bilinguals in both languages. Other test …
Emotions, Not Just Decision-Making Processes, Are Critical To An Evolutionary Model Of Human Behavior, Glenn E. Weisfeld, Peter J. Lafreniere
Emotions, Not Just Decision-Making Processes, Are Critical To An Evolutionary Model Of Human Behavior, Glenn E. Weisfeld, Peter J. Lafreniere
Psychology Faculty Scholarship
An evolutionary model of human behavior should privilege emotions: essential, phylogenetically ancient behaviors that learning and decision making only subserve. Infants and non-mammals lack advanced cognitive powers but still survive. Decision making is only a means to emotional ends, which organize and prioritize behavior. The emotion of pride/shame, or dominance striving, bridges the social and biological sciences via internalization of cultural norms.