Zhe Chen

Professor

Ph.D., University of Massachusetts/Amherst
M.S., University of Massachusetts/Amherst

Interests: Cognitive, Family, School

Life Phases: Infancy, Early Childhood, Middle Childhood

E-mail: zhechen@ucdavis.edu

Research Interests:

His research focuses on children's thinking and learning processes. Current research interests include three interrelated lines of inquiry: analogical problem solving; scientific reasoning; and microgenetic analyses of strategy acquisition.

Courses Taught:

Early Child Development

Cognitive Development

Culture & Children's Thinking

Recent Publications:

Honomichl, R., & Chen, Z. Learning to align relations in young children: The effects of feedback and self-explanation. (in press) Journal of Cognition and Development

Chen, Z. (in press). Learning to map: Strategy discovery and strategy change in young children. Developmental Psychology.

Chen, Z., Mo, L., & Honomichl, R. (2004). Having the memory of an elephant: Long-term retrieval and use of analogues in problem solving. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 133, 415-433.

Chen, Z., & Mo, L., (2004). Schema induction in problem solving: A multi-dimensional analysis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 30, 583-600.

Chen, Z. Worth one thousand words: Children's use of pictures in analogical problem solving. Journal of Cognition and Development, 2003, 4, 415-434.

Klahr, D., & Chen, Z. (2003). Overcoming the "positive capture" strategy in young children: Learning about indeterminacy. Child Development, 74, 1256-1277.

Chen, Z. (2002). Analogical problem solving: A hierarchical analysis of procedural similarity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 28, 81-98.

Chen, Z., & Siegler, R. S. (2000). Across the great divide: Bridging the gap between understanding of toddlers' and older children's thinking. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 65 (2, Serial No. 261).

Chen, Z. (1999). Schema induction in children's analogical problem solving. Journal of Educational Psychology, 91, 703-715.

Chen, Z., & Klahr, D. (1999). All other things being equal: Children's acquisition and transfer of the Control of Variables Strategy. Child Development, 70, 1098-1120.

Siegler, R. S., & Chen, Z. (1998). Developmental differences in rule learning: A microgenetic analysis. Cognitive Psychology, 36, 273-310.

Chen, Z., Sanchez, R., & Campbell, T. (1997). From beyond to within their grasp: Analogical problem solving in 10- and 13-month-olds. Developmental Psychology, 33, 790-801.

Related Links:

http://humandevelopment.ucdavis.edu