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The Development of Conversational Rules in Four-, Six-, and Eight-Year-Old Children: An Investigation with Naturalistic and Controlled Methodologies.
Taylor, Stephen Alvin – 1976
This investigation explored the conversational practices and conversational rule-conformity of children aged four, six, and eight. Procedures included observation of the conversational behavior of children in classroom interaction among peers and a controlled laboratory investigation of the conversations of 18 children, of varying age levels, who…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Child Language, Doctoral Dissertations
The Relationship between Mothers' Knowledge of Child Development and the Age at Which They Recognize the Special Needs of Their Child.
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Weiss, Elisheva – 2001
Noting that early intervention can be an effective method to help children who have special needs and their parents, this study explored the relationship between a mother's knowledge of development and the age at which she recognizes her child's special needs. The second portion of the Knowledge of Infant Development Inventory was used to quantify…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Developmental Stages, Early Intervention
Verbal Self-Regulation of Behavior by Children with Internal and External Locus of Control.
Standahl, Jerry Joel – 1975
Forty children each from nursery school, first grade, and third grade participated in a study of the use of symbolic mediators in the control of overt behavior of children with internal and external locus of control. Each child participated in three different verbal control tasks: a push-button task, a pounding-board task, and a serial-recall…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Child Language, Doctoral Dissertations
Developing Symbolic Abilities of Young Children in Play, Drawing, and Written Language.
Gillis, Marion Frances – 1976
This study investigated the relationships between symbolic play, reading readiness, drawing, Piaget's principle of conservation, and age, in 41 preschool children. Subjects were participants in a pre-first-grade summer program; they had had kindergarten experience but no formal reading instruction, and they ranged in age from five years, six…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Art Expression, Child Development, Cognitive Development
An Analysis of the Responses of Four-, Six-, and Eight-Year-Old Children to Four Kinds of Questions.
Kroot, Nancy Egel – 1976
This study investigated the quantitative and qualitative differences in the responses of children aged four, six, and eight to four kinds of questions; cognitive memory, convergent, divergent, and evaluative. The subjects, 48 boys and girls, were from advantaged homes and had attended, or were attending, nursery school. Each subject was shown a…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Development
The Impact of Divorce on the Lives of Children: Alleviating the Trauma of the Divorce Experience Through Adult Intervention Strategies.
Parker, Denise – 1978
This paper reviews current literature pertaining to the effects of divorce on children and makes suggestions regarding general ways in which parents and other adults may assist children in coping with divorce. The population of children towards which this study is directed includes preschool through latency age children. All inferences made in…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Divorce, Emotional Adjustment