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Furrow, David; James, Patricia – Child Development, 1985
When not socially engaged, children showed a significantly greater percentage of reoriented attention during vocalizing than nonvocalizing periods. Findings confirm the existence of an attention/vocalization relation and are consonant with Greenfield's predictions about the nature of this relation. The relation held equally for prelinguistic and…
Descriptors: Attention, Developmental Stages, Infant Behavior, Infants
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Hay, Dale F.; And Others – Child Development, 1985
Results of two experiments indicate that dimensions of the social situation in which social behaviors are modeled influence eight-month-old children's tendency to imitate and their choice of recipients for their imitation. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Imitation, Infant Behavior, Infants, Modeling (Psychology)
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MacTurk, Robert H.; And Others – Child Development, 1985
Analyzes the exploratory behaviors of 11 infants with Down Syndrome and 11 nondelayed infants, matched on Bayley mental raw scores and gender. Although both groups of infants organized their exploratory activities in similar manners, they showed significant differences in how they distribute these activities. (Author/BE)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Downs Syndrome, Exploratory Behavior, Infants
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Whalen, Carol K.; And Others – Child Development, 1987
Study examined peer sensitivity to (1) differences in the social behaviors of hyperactive and normal comparison peers, and (2) medication-related behavioral differences. Discussion focused on children's detection of treatment-related differences in social behaviors of peers, as well as on the imperfect relation between social behavior and social…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Behavior Rating Scales, Hyperactivity, Peer Evaluation
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Tisak, Marie S. – Child Development, 1986
Examines children's conceptions of parental authority. A total of 120 children were interviewed and asked to evaluate social events (stealing, family chores, friendship choice) pertaining to restraint of behavior and maintenance of parental rule systems. Results suggest that children's notions of authority are heterogeneous with respect to the…
Descriptors: Children, Concept Formation, Moral Values, Parent Influence
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Howes, Carollee; And Others – Child Development, 1989
Studies social play and social and solitary pretend play in well-acquainted toddlers aged 14-38 months in order to describe a sequence of progressively more complex social pretend play forms. Results indicate that social pretend play forms emerge later than comparable solitary pretend and social play forms. (RJC)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cross Sectional Studies, Peer Relationship, Pretend Play
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Kagan, Jerome; And Others – Child Development, 1988
Behavioral and physiological assessments of 41 seven-and-one-half-year-old children who had been selected to be inhibited or uninhibited at 21 months and observed again at four and five-and-one-half years revealed that each of the two original behavioral profiles predicted theoretically reasonable derivatives. Shy children remained shy, while…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Rating Scales, Inhibition, Longitudinal Studies
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Brody, Gene H.; And Others – Child Development, 1984
Directives, social conversation, on-task play, and positive, negative, nonsense, and task-related verbalizations of preschool-aged and school-aged peer dyads were observed in a laboratory playroom in the presence or absence of observers. Results revealed that the frequency of all of the behaviors sampled, except positive verbalizations, decreased…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Peer Relationship, Preschool Children
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Ward, Mary J.; And Others – Child Development, 1988
Findings indicated that (1) when siblings were 24-months-old, their social-emotional behavior displayed some concordance, and maternal behavior was stable with all siblings; (2) significant concordance in siblings' social-emotional behavior was conditioned by stability of maternal behavior; and (3) quality of infant-mother attachment at 12 months…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Infants, Mothers
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Brownell, Celia A. – Child Development, 1988
Children's ability to produce integrated sequences of discrete behaviors was examined as a function of age and task demands for several behavioral domains. Results are discussed in terms of possible age-related constraints on combinatorial skills that operate at a general, cross-domain level during toddlerhood. (RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Ability, Performance Factors
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Birch, Leann Lipps; Billman, Jane – Child Development, 1986
Investigates 57 three- to five-year-old children's sharing of preferred and nonpreferred food with same-sex peers as a function of (1) whether or not the children had previous experience as recipients and (2) whether or not the child was shared with during the experience as a recipient. (HOD)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Food, Friendship, Interpersonal Relationship
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Sackin, Steve; Thelen, Esther – Child Development, 1984
A total of 20 five-year-old children were observed in two different preschools to examine conciliatory and subordinate behaviors following conflicts and to determine these behaviors' relationship to subsequent interaction (i.e., separation or peaceful association). Discusses the importance of conciliatory gestures in resolving social tension. (CB)
Descriptors: Body Language, Conflict Resolution, Group Dynamics, Interpersonal Communication
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Smetana, Judith G. – Child Development, 1984
Social interactions regarding moral and conventional transgressions were observed among two toddler groups. Each of 16 day care center classrooms, eight serving 13- to 27-month-olds and eight serving 18- to 40-month-olds, was observed for three 45-minute sessions. Implications of results concerned the developmental origins of distinctions between…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Check Lists, Child Caregivers, Day Care
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Caldera, Yvonne M; And Others – Child Development, 1989
Studied 40 parents and their children aged 18-23 months to determine whether parents encouraged involvement with sex-stereotyped toys or avoidance of cross-sex-stereotyped toys, and whether masculine and feminine toys led to different patterns of parent-child interactions. Children showed greater involvement with same-sex than with cross-sex toys.…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Parent Influence, Parents, Play
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Hofer, Myron A. – Child Development, 1987
This article outlines a strategy for studying early social relationships in relatively simple animal model systems. It describes some of the differences in approach between neuroscientists and human developmentalists in dealing with the same research problems. (BN)
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Infants, Literature Reviews
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