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Peer reviewedRheingold, Harriet L.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1987
Investigated in three studies were responses of 18- and 24-month-old children to a series of commands. Results suggest that a potent incentive for obeying commands lies in the pleasure very young children take in fitting their actions to the words of others. This pleasure sustains subsequent reenactment of the actions without commands. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Emotional Experience, Infant Behavior, Infants, Performance Factors
Peer reviewedBelsky, Jay; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1984
Two studies were conducted to (1) develop measure of infants' executive capacity, defined as difference between infants' most sophisticated level of functioning displayed first in free and then in elicited play and (2) to test several hypotheses regarding relationship between these performance and competence measures of child functioning and home…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Competence, Family Environment, Infant Behavior
Peer reviewedWachs, Theodore D.; Chan, Alice – Child Development, 1986
Reveals that different aspects of the environment differentially contributed to variability in communication performance of one-year-old infants. Findings support the environmental specificity hypothesis and underline the need to consider physical environmental parameters when investigating environmental influences. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Environmental Influences, Infant Behavior, Models
