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Brandone, Amanda C.; Pence, Khara L.; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy – Child Development, 2007
This paper explores how children use two possible solutions to the verb-mapping problem: attention to perceptually salient actions and attention to social and linguistic information (speaker cues). Twenty-two-month-olds attached a verb to one of two actions when perceptual cues (presence/absence of a result) coincided with speaker cues but not…
Descriptors: Verbs, Perception, Interpersonal Relationship, Linguistics
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Furman, Wyndol; Buhrmester, Duane – Child Development, 1985
Developed a framework for describing and assessing the qualities of sibling relationships by interviewing upper elementary school children and administering a self-report questionnaire to fifth- and sixth-grade children. Component analysis yielded four underlying factors: warmth/closeness, relative status/power, conflict, and rivalry. Relative…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Children, Elementary Education, Human Relations
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Furman, Wyndol; Buhrmester, Duane – Child Development, 1992
Examined differences in perceptions of relationships in preadolescence, early adolescence, midadolescence, and late adolescence. Findings were largely consistent with seven propositions derived from major theories of the developmental courses of personal relationships. Discussion centers around the role that various relationships are perceived as…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, College Students, Elementary Secondary Education