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Plate, Rista C.; Fulvio, Jacqueline M.; Shutts, Kristin; Green, C. Shawn; Pollak, Seth D. – Child Development, 2018
Individuals track probabilities, such as associations between events in their environments, but less is known about the degree to which experience--within a learning session and over development--influences people's use of incoming probabilistic information to guide behavior in real time. In two experiments, children (4-11 years) and adults…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Young Children, Change Strategies
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Forbes, L. M.; Evans, E. M.; Moran, G.; Pederson, D. R. – Child Development, 2007
This longitudinal study examined links between disorganization and atypical maternal behavior at 12 and 24 months in 71 adolescent mother-child dyads. Organized attachment and maternal not disrupted behavior were more stable than disorganization and disrupted behavior, respectively. At both ages, disorganization and maternal disrupted behavior…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Parent Child Relationship, Mothers, Longitudinal Studies
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Roper, R.; Hinde, R. A. – Child Development, 1978
The social behavior of 38 preschool children in a village play group was shown to exhibit considerable consistency from one half term to the next, from one term to the next, and between indoor classroom and outdoor playground situations. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Play, Preschool Children
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Braungart-Rieker, Julia M.; Stifter, Cynthia A. – Child Development, 1996
Examined continuity, stability, and change in behaviors reflecting infant reactivity and regulation. Subjects were 100 infants of 5 and 10 months old. Found that infant behaviors during frustrating situations showed both change and continuity, but the relationship between reactivity and regulation changed in that both factors became more…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Child Psychology
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Garner, Pamela W.; Power, Thomas G. – Child Development, 1996
Evaluated a conceptual model that links temperament, emotional knowledge, and family expressiveness to preschoolers' emotional regulation ability by giving "disappointing" prizes after a task. Subjects were 82 preschoolers. Found that children's positive displays when presented the disappointing prize were inversely related to the…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Child Behavior