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Sagiv, Lilach; Schwartz, Shalom H. – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2004
We examine relations of values and intelligence to overt behavior in a field study of clients in career counseling (N = 365). Eleven counselors reported their clients' independence, activity and insightfulness behaviors. As predicted, both values and intelligence correlated substantially with particular behaviors. Activity and independence…
Descriptors: Maturity (Individuals), Social Behavior, Intelligence, Career Counseling
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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
Brown, Sandra A. – 1983
Affective and physiological responses, interpersonal interaction, and alcohol consumption have been significantly correlated with cognitive factors in defining the behavioral effects of alcohol. To investigate alcohol reinforcement expectancies at the abusive end of the drinking continuum, 305 male and female adult alcoholics enrolled in alcohol…
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Behavior, Alcoholism, Behavior Patterns
Bartell, Patricia; And Others – 1985
Research on individual's response to emergency situations in the presence of others has produced conflicting results. The bystander effect is the label applied to inaction or the unlikelihood of assistance with others present. The social facilitation effect occurs when the presence of others energizes response; strong habit responses are…
Descriptors: Audiences, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Females
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Potts, Richard; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Reports on an experiment that examined the independent effects of television content (violence) and television formal features (action) on preschool boys' attention to programs and their postviewing social behavior. Shows rapid character action facilitated visual attention to the programs and that television action level had no systematic effects…
Descriptors: Aggression, Attention Span, Behavior Patterns, Males
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Berndt, Thomas J.; Bulleit, Thomas N. – Developmental Psychology, 1985
Examines the social behavior of 34 preschool children, observed both at home and in preschool, to determine patterning interactions among siblings and consistency in children's interactions with siblings and peers. Concludes that children's behavior at home is most affected by relative age of their siblings. (HOD)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Interpersonal Communication, Language Skills
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Reiss, Michael J. – Journal of Biological Education, 1987
Discusses variables which determine the strategies animals use to organize their lives. Describes advances in understanding animal behaviors. Shows how game theory has helped to explain the existence of alternative behavioral strategies and the constraints under which organizers exist. (Author/CW)
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Biological Sciences, College Science
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Snyder, James; Patterson, Gerald R. – Child Development, 1986
Identifies reliable mother action-child reaction patterns and assesses the effect of maternal consequences for those patterns on the probability of their subsequent occurrence. (HOD)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Compliance (Psychology), Mothers
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Reznick, J. Steven; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Observed a group of 46 children classified at 20 months as either behaviorally inhibited or uninhibited, and 18 children who were classified aa falling at neither extreme at 5.5 years of age, in contexts designed to evaluate behavior in social situations and heart rate, heart variability, and pupillary dilation to cognitive tasks. (HOD)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis
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Sevin, Jay A.; And Others – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1995
A cluster analytic study was conducted to derive behaviorally homogeneous subtypes of pervasive developmental disorders (PDD) based on a range of behavioral symptoms that characterize autism. Analysis of data on 34 children with PDD, 27 of whom met criteria for autism, indicated 4 distinct groups differing on independent measures of social,…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Children, Classification, Cluster Analysis
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Vandell, Deborah Lowe; And Others – Child Development, 1988
Discusses observations of sets of infant twins, aged 6 to 24 months, as they interacted with one another and with an unfamiliar peer. Assesses quality of infant-mother attachment. Finds twins are more likely to react with one another than with a peer. Results are discussed in relation to early peer relationships and attachment. (Author/RWB)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Infant Behavior, Infants
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Hymel, Shelley – Child Development, 1986
Examines the hypothesis that biases in peer interpretations of social behavior may contribute to the stability of social acceptance and rejection in children. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Children
Fox, Karl A. – 1990
The concept of behavior settings--the environments shaping individual behavior--was originated by Roger Barker in 1950 in connection with his community surveys in a small Kansas town, code-named Midwest. This book seeks to provide rural social scientists with an understanding of Barker's eco-behavioral approach and proposed adaptations of it to…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Community Study, Data Interpretation
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Quay, Lorene C.; And Others – Child Study Journal, 1986
Studies the frequency with which preschool children used 11 play centers, engaged in social and nonsocial activities in each play center, and interacted positively and negatively with each other. (HOD)
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Interpersonal Competence
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