AUTHOR=Harris Yvette R. , Almutairi Seham TITLE=A Commentary on Parent–Child Cognitive Learning Interaction Research: What Have We Learned from Two Decades of Research? JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=7 YEAR=2016 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01210 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01210 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=

The role of family influences on preschool and school age cognitive development has received considerable empirical attention from cognitive developmental psychology researchers in the last few decades. As a result of the interest, investigators have focused their attention on developing coding/observational systems to capture the interactions occurring between mothers and their young children. This paper reviews a select body of research on parent–child cognitive learning interactions with the goal of determining how the researchers have operationalized the behaviors that occur within learning interactions. The paper concludes with a discussion of the suggestions on next steps for conducting parent–child cognitive learning interaction research in the future.