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Brazelton, T. Berry – 1975
This paper describes the goals and implementation of a program which trains pediatricians in child development at Boston Children's Hospital. The program emphasizes an understanding of "normal" child development, rather than the pathological model with which most pediatricians are familiar. Pediatricians are encouraged to use their…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Clinics, Community Health Services
Hawkins, Robert Parker – 1976
It was hypothesized that if perceived reality is an important factor in determining children's reactions to television, radical differences in the structure of perceived reality should lead to radical differences in its functioning as well. Questionnaires were answered by 153 children from first, third, and sixth grades in a suburban Wisconsin…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Children
Seybert, Jeffrey A.; And Others – 1978
The effects of different schedules of noncontingent reward on subsequent learning in children were investigated. In the first phase of the experiment subjects performed a block-design matching task and received one of three schedules of noncontingent reward, i.e., continuous reward (Group CRF), random reward on 50% of the trials (Group 50R), or no…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Children, Contingency Management
Rogoff, Barbara; And Others – 1983
It is argued in this paper that, while newborn infants are ignorant of the the life-ways of the society into which they are born, by age 3 children have become socialized participants of their culture. It is the thesis of the discussion that the rapid development of babies into participants of society is accomplished through a finely tuned…
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Adults, Behavior Patterns, Child Development
Radke-Yarrow, Marian – 1987
Families in which one or both parents are diagnosed as being depressed are observed in this ongoing study of how the behavior of depressed parents relates to the child's present and long-term development. Each family which enters the study has a child approximately two years old and a child between five and seven years old. Families are initially…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Child Rearing
McCord, Joan – 1978
Possible explanatory theories of the relationship between broken homes and crime include the following: (1) broken homes lead to crimes if there are "catalytic agents"; (2) broken homes lead to crime if these homes fail to provide certain conditions which promote socialization; and (3) broken homes and crime have a common source, but not…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Crime
Midlarsky, Elizabeth – 1982
Considerable attention has been paid to the question of whether altruism increases with age through the years of childhood and early adolescence. The relationship between age and helping was examined for 128 boys and 128 girls in the first experiment. A second sample of an additional 256 participants was then studied to investigate factors which…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Altruism, Behavior Patterns
Cohen, Bernard; And Others – 1975
A study involving 18 hyperkinetic children (from 3- to 12-years old) was conducted to test the hypothesis that hyperactive children manifest the same type of hypermotility in their eyes as in the rest of their body. Ss were observed under a series of test conditions (including manual problem solving) which elicit short and long periods of…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Research
Baran, Stanley J. – 1974
Children will individually react to television program content according to different psychological characteristics, one of which is self-esteem. Results of one study revealed a definite relationship between a child's self-esteem and his "modeling," or imitative behavior, after observing a televised film. A self-esteem inventory was administered…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Children
Rubin, Kenneth H.; Krasnor, Linda Rose – 1979
This longitudinal study of changes in play behavior in preschool children reports decreases in less mature forms of play and increases in more mature forms of play over time. The study was designed to test the assumption that the play of young children develops in a progressive manner. Ten 3-year-olds and ten 4-year-olds were observed during free…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Childrens Games
Pramuk, Gladys; Danner, Fred – 1982
The literature suggests that children steadily move away from egocentric thought and acquire more effective interpersonal skills as they age, but at puberty a new egocentrism makes self-disclosure difficult. To develop an adequate behavioral measure of self-disclosure, 16 situations were described to children aged 8, 11, and 14 years old, who then…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Childhood Attitudes
Montgomery, J. Anne – 1977
Imitation in the speech of the child serves at least three functions in the development of linguistic competence. Imitation provides auditory feedback for phonological and morpho-syntactic accuracy, produces a model for verification and/or clarification by speakers, and "makes time" for the processing and acquisition of information. Beyond these…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Child Language, Imitation
Huston-Stein, Aletha – 1977
This paper presents a review of research on television viewing and child behavior. The first section of the paper presents a brief historical review of television research. This review includes research on the effect of television on people's lives, the effects of violent content on aggressive behavior and the possible harmful effects of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Auditory Stimuli, Behavior Patterns, Child Development
Eadie, Frank; And Others – 1983
The experiences of one child's storytelling events over a period of nine months were tape recorded in a study that examined which variables were the most important in the child's learning of narrative. The variables considered took into account the impact of different storytellers, different story genres, different interactions (kinds of parental…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Fiction, Influences
Carpenter, C. Jan; Huston-Stein, Aletha – 1979
Sex differences in activity selection or choice appear by age 12 or 18 months. These choices are one of the earliest indicators of sex differences in the behavior of young children. Differences in activity participation or toy choices are evident long before the emergence of sex differences in personality characteristics like passivity or…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Children, Cognitive Processes
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