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Insight into the Time Course of Emotion among Western and Chinese Children.
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Harris, Paul L.; And Others – Child Development, 1985
Western and Chinese children six years of age judged that an initially intense positive or negative emotional reaction would wane gradually over time. Children four years of age were less consistent, but, when steps were taken to insure their comprehension, they too judged that emotion wanes gradually over time. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Comprehension, Emotional Experience
"Don't Forget to Take the Cupcakes out of the Oven": Prospective Memory, Strategic Time-Monitoring, and Context.
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Ceci, Stephen J.; Bronfenbrenner, Urie – Child Development, 1985
Investigates strategies of 10-year-olds and 14-year-olds in tasks requiring prospective memory. Subjects were instructed to perform activities after waiting 30 minutes. As predicted, strategic time-monitoring occurred more frequently in the home than in the laboratory. Emphasizes the power of the laboratory as a contrasting context for…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Context Effect, Laboratory Experiments
Temporal Coordination of Arm Movements in Early Infancy: Do Infants Move in Synchrony with Adult Speech?
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Dowd, John M.; Tronick, Edward Z. – Child Development, 1986
Measures the degree of interdependence in timing between infants' right and left arm movements and between movements of both arms and the onsets of stressed vowels in tape-recorded infant-appropriate speech. (HOD)
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Infants, Mothers, Motor Development
Adult-Like Temporal Characteristics of Mother-Infant Vocal Interactions.
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Jasnow, Michael; Feldstein, Stanley – Child Development, 1986
Examines whether vocal exchanges between preverbal infants and their mothers show characteristics similar to those found to be typical of conversational exchanges between competent adult speakers. (HOD)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Communication Research, Infants, Interpersonal Communication
Children's Impressions of Other Persons: The Effects of Temporal Separation of Behavioral Information.
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Rholes, William S.; Ruble, Diane N. – Child Development, 1986
Examines the implications of temporal separation for children's developmental differences in inferences drawn about an individual's characteristics after observing multiple instances of that individual's behavior. Also tests two competing hypotheses about how young children process information separated in time. (HOD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Development