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Piaget's Stage IV Object Concept Error: Evidence of Forgetting or Object Conception?
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Gratch, Gerald; And Others – Child Development, 1974
Forgetting, as defined by Piaget as Stage IV error, was studied in infants. Results partially support Piaget's hypothesis. (ST)
Descriptors: Infants, Intellectual Development, Memory, Perception
Ordinality and Sensory-Motor Series
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Kopp, Claire B.; And Others – Child Development, 1973
Ordinality of three subtests of a sensory-motor series was evaluated in a longitudinal study of infants. Results indicated that scalability can be affected by the responses of infants at different developmental ages. (ST)
Descriptors: Infants, Intellectual Development, Longitudinal Studies, Test Construction
Infant Performance and Intellectual Precocity
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Willerman, Lee; Fiedler, Miriam Forster – Child Development, 1974
A retrospective check of 100, white 4-year-olds (with IQ's of 140 or more) showed no precocity at age 8 months, as measured by the Bayley Scales of Mental and Motor Development. (ST)
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Behavior, Gifted, Infants
Fetal Malnutrition: An Experimental Study of Its Consequences on Infant Development in Two Caregiving Environments.
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Zeskind, Philip Sanford; Ramey, Craig T. – Child Development, 1978
Infants from low socioeconomic status families were randomly assigned to either an instructional day care program designed to prevent socioculturally caused mental retardation or to a nonintervention control group. The effects of these environments were then compared for fetally malnourished infants in terms of later intellectual functioning and…
Descriptors: Day Care, Infants, Intellectual Development, Intervention
Teaching Parents a Strategy for Enhancing Infant Development.
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Metzl, Marilyn Newman – Child Development, 1980
Normal, first-born children of two-parent, self-supporting families (N=60) were divided into three groups at birth: control, mothers receiving a specific language stimulation program, and both parents receiving the program simultaneously. Infants whose parents received simultaneous training exhibited the greatest gain over 4 1/2 months in Bayley…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Infants, Intellectual Development, Intervention
Synchrony Demonstrated between Movements of the Neonate and Adult Speech
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Condon, William S.; Sander, Louis W. – Child Development, 1974
Infant reaction to adult speech was studied through frame-by-frame analysis of sound films. Infants' actions were found to be synchronized with the organized speech behavior of the adults in his environment. (ST)
Descriptors: Adults, Behavioral Science Research, Communication (Thought Transfer), Comprehension
Relationships Between Attributes of Mothers and Their Infants' IQ Scores
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Beckwith, Leila – Child Development, 1971
The present study explores the specific environmental influences in the intellectual development of 24 adoptive infants living in middle class families. (Author)
Descriptors: Child Development, Data Analysis, Environmental Influences, Infants
Type of Day-Care and Preschool Intellectual Development in Disadvantaged Children.
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Burchinal, Margaret; And Others – Child Development, 1989
Investigates levels and patterns of intellectual development of 131 socioeconomically disadvantaged children in university-based intervention group day care or community day care, or with little or no day care. Results suggest that high quality day care may positively change the intellectual development of socioeconomically disadvantaged children.…
Descriptors: Blacks, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged Youth
Preventing Intellectual and Interactional Sequelae of Fetal Malnutrition: A Longitudinal Transactional, and Synergistic Approach to Development.
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Zeskind, Philip Sanford; Ramey, Craig T. – Child Development, 1981
Presents longitudinal data regarding detrimental effects through 36 months of age on intellectual, behavioral, and social-interactional development in a nonsupportive caregiving environment, and the continuing amelioration of those effects in a supportive caregiving environment. Suggests that mothers of fetally malnourished infants may have had…
Descriptors: Infant Behavior, Infants, Intellectual Development, Intelligence Differences