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Alsop, Glenison – Roeper Review, 2003
This article examines a definition of giftedness that emphasizes asynchronous development and analyzes archival data collected on 535 high-IQ children in Australia. It found five patterns of behavior that provide evidence of asynchronous development: anxious; self-critical; overly sensitive; easily upset; and easily frustrated; with depression…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education
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Rosenthal, Doreen; Bornholt, Laurel – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1988
Examination of the child development beliefs of 40 families reveals that Greek-Australians regard behaviors reflecting initiative and independence, personal maturity, and interpersonal sensitivity to be appropriate at a later age than do Anglo-Australians, but the converse holds true for respect, self-control, and unsupervised activities. Parents'…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Standards
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Erickson, Martha Farrell; Egeland, Byron – Clinical Psychologist, 2004
Twenty-nine years ago Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (MLSPC) was launched at the Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota. It was one of the first prospective longitudinal studies of how parent-infant attachment develops, how it changes over time, and how the quality of attachment in infancy influences…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Longitudinal Studies, Child Development, Infants
Harvey-Beavis, Adrian – 1994
How teachers' judgments about student literacy behavior were analyzed under the Rasch model is described. The analysis was done to assist staff of the Western Australian Department of Education to revise aspects of a literacy program called "First Steps" for the early years of school. First Steps uses a developmental continuum of small…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Educational Assessment, Elementary Education