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The Development of Categorization in the Second Year and Its Relation to Other Cognitive and Linguistic Developments.
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Gopnik, Alison; Meltzoff, Andrew – Child Development, 1987
Changes in children's categorization behavior between 15 and 21 months of age and the relation of these changes to developments in language, object permanence, and means-end understanding are reported. (PCB)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Classification, Cognitive Development, Infant Behavior
Short Communication: Effects of Environmental Enrichment on the Mental and Psychomotor Development of Orphanage Children.
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Hakimi-Manesh, Yahya; And Others – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 1984
Examines the effects of an extra five minutes of interaction on the psychomotor and mental development of Iranian infant orphans largely deprived of opportunities to interact with caretakers and peers. Daily intervention continued for six weeks; effects were assessed after a 6-month interval. (RH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Enrichment, Foreign Countries, Infant Behavior
Siblings as Models in Early Infant Learning.
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Wishart, Jennifer G. – Child Development, 1986
Investigates whether 6- to 12-month-old infants' exposure to the successful search behavior of a sibling in two object-concept tasks would enhance infants' subsequent performance on these tasks. (HOD)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Infant Imitation and Memory: Nine-Month-Olds in Immediate and Deferred Tests.
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Meltzoff, Andrew N. – Child Development, 1988
Investigates ability of nine-month-old infants to imitate simple actions with novel objects. Looks at both immediate and deferred imitation. Findings show that imitation in early infancy can span wide enough delays to be of potential service in social development. (Author/RWB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Imitation, Infant Behavior
Advances in Child Development: Theory and Research.
Nesdale, Andrew R., Ed.; And Others – 1981
This book consists of 31 papers focusing on aspects of child development. Mainly reports of research, papers are grouped topically into four sections dealing respectively with perceptual, language/communication, cognitive, and social development. Most of the nine papers in section 1 focus on the perceptual development of infants. Topics include…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Communication (Thought Transfer)