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Jennings, Kay D.; Curry, Nancy E. – 1982
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of group size on toddlers' peer interactions and social interactions with mothers. In particular, the study sought to answer the following questions: (1) When both mothers and peers are available to the child, with whom does he/she prefer to play? and (2) Are there differences in the types of…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Group Behavior, Infants, Interaction

Paloutzian, Raymond F. – 1974
After the development and distinctions of the concept of deindividuation are given, a single dimension of morally relevant behavior is outlined with aggression and altruism viewed as the two extremes. This dimension is divided accoring to degree of external reinforcement control. The result is a 2x2 scheme for classifying morally relevant behavior…
Descriptors: Aggression, Altruism, Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Patterns
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
Pack, Albert R.; Michael, William B. – 1995
This study investigated the extent to which data collected on play behavior differ when two different data collection methods, observation alone and observation plus interview, were used. A secondary objective was to compare data collected using both methods in an indoor and outdoor play environment. The social and cognitive play behavior for a…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection
Johnson, Lynn G.; Hatch, J. Amos – 1987
The paper reports findings of a study describing and analyzing the creative and social behavior of four highly original children in the context of 1 year's preschool experience. Videotape, interview, participant observation, and artifact data were collected to construct the descriptions. The study attempted to answer the following questions: (1)…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Case Studies, Creative Activities, Creativity
Lederberg, Amy R.; And Others – 1991
Thirty-three deaf and 33 hearing children were videotaped playing with their hearing mothers at 22 months and 3 years of age. The deaf and hearing dyads differed at 22 months only on communicative competence. In addition, interactions in deaf dyads were mother dominated and less harmonious than in hearing dyads. At 3 years, the deaf children also…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Deafness, Infants
Hatch, J. Amos; Johnson, Lynn G. – 1988
This paper reports findings from a study of social adjustments in the face-to-face interactions of four highly original preschool children, and suggests a framework for guiding the social development of gifted and talented young children. Descriptions of the four students' behavior patterns demonstrate the social adjustments they employed in…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Change Strategies
Richards, Nancy; Smith, Manuel J. – 1985
Project STAR (Social Thinking and Reasoning Program) is a classroom-based social skills program for students in grades 5-8. To assess the long-term effectiveness of this program, students participated in the project (N=331) were compared with control students (N=191) during 1980-83. The hypothesis that there are significant differences in current…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Behavior Patterns, Drug Use
Kurdek, Lawrence A. – 1975
The development of perceptual, cognitive, and affective perspective taking and empathy was investigated in 96 kindergarten through third-grade children. Cognitive perspective taking was found to increase between second and third grades. Affective perspective taking, in situations controlling for the likelihood of the subjects' projecting their own…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Development, Emotional Development
Morgan, George A.; And Others – 1974
In this study an attempt was made to measure variables which were expected to be related to individual differences in infants' social responsiveness toward strangers. The subjects were 48 infants (24 boys and 24 girls) between 8 and 13 months of age. Most were children of Cornell University faculty or graduate students, but a broad range of…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Identification (Psychology), Individual Differences, Infant Behavior

Strayer, F. F.; And Others – 1977
This collection of papers represents an extension of analytic approaches and concepts from animal social ethology to the study of activities among stable groups of young children. A major emphasis of this research was on the description of organizational patterns in social behavior observed during periods of free play. The papers are: (1) "An…
Descriptors: Affiliation Need, Aggression, Altruism, Behavior Patterns
Willey, Diane L.; And Others – 1993
R. J. Sternberg and others found that the types of behaviors reported by laypersons as characterizing different types of intelligence varied across the different groups tested, and that a person's concept of intelligence affects the manner in which he or she evaluates the intelligence of others. Two experiments by Sternberg et al. were replicated.…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Behavior Patterns, Beliefs, College Students
Hallinan, Maureen T. – 1977
This paper investigates the formation and evolution of friendship cliques among preadolescent youths. An understanding of these patterns can aid teachers in influencing social relations and the behavior of their students. Two sets of sociometric data were collected to analyze children's friendship cliques. The relationship among the variables of…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Child Development, Child Role
Selman, Robert L.; And Others – 1977
This paper describes an on-going study in which clinical research techniques are used to examine children's social cognition and its development. The study focuses on the relation between subjects' verbally expressed reasoning about social issues in two situations: during interview sessions and in natural life settings. Subjects for the study are…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Classroom Observation Techniques, Developmental Psychology