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Wakschlag, Lauren S.; Leventhal, Bennett L.; Pine, Daniel S.; Pickett, Kate E.; Carter, Alice S. – Child Development, 2006
There is a robust association between prenatal smoking and disruptive behavior disorders, but little is known about the emergence of such behaviors in early development. The association of prenatal smoking and hypothesized behavioral precursors to disruptive behavior in toddlers (N=93) was tested. Exposed toddlers demonstrated atypical behavioral…
Descriptors: Cues, Developmental Psychology, Psychopathology, Prenatal Influences
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Emmerich, Walter – Child Development, 1977
This article presents a scheme which would allow investigators to shift back and forth among model assumptions while maintaining the integrity of separate models of development. The scheme is illustrated in a study of 16 nursery school children's personal-social behaviors within 2 contexts during 2 time periods. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Conceptual Schemes, Developmental Psychology, Models
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Heilbrun, Alfred B., Jr. – Child Development, 1972
A developmental model for paranoid behavior has been proposed which postulates that the attempt to adapt to sustained aversive maternal control by manipulative social approach behaviors (open adaptive style) leaves the person vulnerable to emerging paranoid tendencies. (Author)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Developmental Psychology, Males
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Henshel, Anne-Marie – Child Development, 1971
It was found that there was a stronger negative correlation between honesty scores and cheating incidents among older children than younger. (Author)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Cheating