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Gadberry, Sharon – Child Development, 1974
Descriptors: Attention, Behavior Patterns, Motor Development, Play
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Kassin, Saul M.; Ellis, Shari A. – Child Development, 1988
Studied a social developmental model of discounting. Experiments showed that discounting increased according to the degree of similarity between the task situation and subjects' earlier experience. Although older children discounted consistently, younger children discounted only after a relevant script-generating experience. (RJC)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Early Experience, Elementary Education
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Berndt, Thomas J. – Child Development, 1982
Four features of early adolescent friendship have received the greatest attention in the literature: intimacy of conversations, friends' responsiveness to each other's needs and desires, the degree of similarity or complementarity between friends, and the stability of friendships over time. Each of these features and its potential effect on the…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Biological Influences, Change, Cognitive Development
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Snyder, James; Patterson, Gerald R. – Child Development, 1986
Identifies reliable mother action-child reaction patterns and assesses the effect of maternal consequences for those patterns on the probability of their subsequent occurrence. (HOD)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Compliance (Psychology), Mothers
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Vandell, Deborah Lowe; And Others – Child Development, 1988
Discusses observations of sets of infant twins, aged 6 to 24 months, as they interacted with one another and with an unfamiliar peer. Assesses quality of infant-mother attachment. Finds twins are more likely to react with one another than with a peer. Results are discussed in relation to early peer relationships and attachment. (Author/RWB)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Infant Behavior, Infants
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Clarke-Stewart, K. Alison; And Others – Child Development, 1979
Replicated the Clarke-Stewart (1973) cross-dimensional study of mother-child interaction using different children at different ages and in a series of four different samples. Variables included measures of children's cognitive, language, and social development and mothers' attitudes, ability, and behavior, assessed in standardized tests,…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition, Mothers
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Erdley, Cynthia A.; Asher, Steven R. – Child Development, 1996
Examined whether children who vary in their behavioral responses to ambiguous provocation but have similar attributional processes differ in their social goals and self- efficacy perceptions. Subjects were 781 4th and 5th graders. Found that aggressive, withdrawn, and problem-solving responders differed in the social goals and self-efficacy…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Patterns, Children, Individual Development
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Malatesta, Carol Zander; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Using a longitudinal design, investigates the interactive behaviors of mothers of normal infants and mothers of infants who are known to differ on a host of cognitive, behavioral, and biological parameters. Examines the developmental course of emotional expressivity in these infants. (HOD)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Development, Emotional Development
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Rubin, Kenneth H.; Burgess, Kim B.; Hastings, Paul D. – Child Development, 2002
Used prospective longitudinal design to ascertain whether different types of behavioral inhibition were stable from toddler to preschool age, and whether inhibited temperament or parenting style predicted children's subsequent social/behavioral problems. Found that traditional and peer-social toddler inhibition predicted socially reticent behavior…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Behavior, Inhibition, Longitudinal Studies