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Butler, Lucas Payne, Ed.; Ronfard, Samuel, Ed.; Corriveau, Kathleen H., Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2020
Questioning others is one of the most powerful methods that children use to learn about the world. How does questioning develop? How is it socialized? And how can questioning be leveraged to support learning and education? In this volume, some of the world's leading experts are brought together to explore critical issues in the development of…
Descriptors: Information Seeking, Cognitive Development, Child Development, Comprehension
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Dunn, Judith F.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1985
Videotapes of 50 mothers interacting with each of two siblings when each child was 12 months old showed that mothers behaved very similarly towards the siblings. Results suggest that differential maternal treatment of children at the same age in infancy is unlikely to be a major source of observed marked individual differences in siblings.…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Infants, Mothers, Siblings
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Weber, Ruth A.; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Results suggest that various aspects of Strange Situation behavior are related to both maternal and infant temperament, and that maternal temperament is a predictor of attachment security, particularly for Type A mother-avoidant infants. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Individual Differences, Infants, Mothers
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Bretherton, Inge – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1985
Provides overview of attachment theory as parented by John Bowlby in "Attachment and Loss". Uses two major concepts from this work to interpret refinements and elaborations of attachment theory attibuted to Mary Ainsworth. Considers how recent insights into development of socioemotional understanding and development of event…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Individual Differences, Infants, Models
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Rutter, D. R.; Durkin, Kevin – Developmental Psychology, 1987
Reports findings of a cross-sectional study and a longitudinal study of infants' and toddlers' interaction with their mothers. Findings indicated active structuring of vocal interaction by the end of the infant's second year; gaze began to approximate the typical adult pattern of signaling as early as 18 months. Implications for theory and…
Descriptors: Coordination, Cross Sectional Studies, Individual Differences, Infants
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Pettit, Gregory S.; Bates, John E. – Child Development, 1984
Investigated continuities in mother-infant interaction observed at home, maternally perceived infant difficulties, and infant developmental competency. Also assessed were background characteristics and possible variables moderating maternal report of satisfaction with adjustment. A total of 128 dyads were assessed when infants were 6 and 13 months…
Descriptors: Competence, Individual Characteristics, Individual Differences, Infants
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Vaughn, Brian E.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1987
Data from four studies answer Carey's (1982, 1983) critical questions about the validity of the original Infant Temperament Questionnaire (ITQ). Discussion illuminates the complexity of establishing the construct validity of psychological assessments used with infants. Data suggest that both the original and revised Carey ITQs fail discriminant…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Child Rearing, Individual Differences, Infants
Brody, Leslie R. – 1983
Three studies explored age, sex, and individual differences in children's defensiveness about four feelings: happiness, anger, sadness, and fear. Also investigated was the relation between children's defensiveness and their mothers' comfort with and expression of feelings. Participants included children ranging in age from 4 through 11 years of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Emotional Response, Individual Differences
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Power, Thomas G. – Child Development, 1985
Investigated predominant kinds of parent-infant play and individual differences in play style. Participants were 24 families of healthy, full-term, firstborn infants, four boys and four girls at each of three ages: 7, 10, and 13 months. (RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Fathers, Individual Differences, Infants
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Belsky, Jay; And Others – Child Development, 1984
Aimed (1) to determine whether a time sampling, frequency-count procedure for assessing mother-infant interaction could capture a set of theoretically important dimensions, and (2) to chronicle both ability and change within the mother-infant relationship. A total of 74 dyads were observed when infants were 1, 3, and 9 months of age. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Infants, Longitudinal Studies, Mothers
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Belsky, Jay; And Others – Child Development, 1984
To test hypotheses concerning interactional histories associated with variation in quality of infant-mother attachment, data were gathered during naturalistic home observations of 60 infants 1, 3, and 9 months of age. Responses were elicited on the Ainsworth and Wittig strange situations. Results concerned mothers' relatively greater influence in…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Emotional Response, Individual Differences, Infant Behavior
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Dunn, Judy; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1987
Two longitudinal studies focused on naturally occurring conversations at home among (1) 18- and 24-month-old second-born children, mothers, and older siblings, and (2) first-born children 25 and 32 months old, mothers, and younger siblings. By two years of age most children referred to a range of feeling states in self and other, and discussed the…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Emotional Experience, Individual Differences, Infants
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Hornik, Robin; Gunnar, Megan R. – Child Development, 1988
Wary infants were more likely than bold infants to reference their mothers when the stimulus, a caged rabbit, was first presented; however, as the exploration period progressed, bold and wary infants referenced equally often. Referencing occurred less often than affective sharing. (RH)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Exploratory Behavior, Facial Expressions, Incidence
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Booth, Cathryn L.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1989
Tested a two-step infant preventive intervention model. Subjects were 147 multiproblem mothers and their infants. Data partially supported the model. Additional analyses explored factors associated with individual differences in delivery of services and response to treatment. (RH)
Descriptors: Family Problems, High Risk Persons, Individual Development, Individual Differences
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Takahashi, Keiko – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Examines the strange-situation procedure among Japanese mother-infant pairs and analyzes their behavior by comparing them with the data reported in the book by M.S. Ainsworth and others. (HOD)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences