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Evans, Angela D.; Lee, Kang – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Lying is a pervasive human behavior. Evidence to date suggests that from the age of 42 months onward, children become increasingly capable of telling lies in various social situations. However, there is limited experimental evidence regarding whether very young children will tell lies spontaneously. The present study investigated the emergence of…
Descriptors: Deception, Young Children, Toddlers, Child Behavior
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Dunham, Philip; Dunham, Frances – Developmental Psychology, 1995
Individual differences in children's conceptual strategies at 3 years of age were predicted by aspects of children's behavior and language at 13 and 24 months. Production of pointing gestures at 13 months and nouns and attributive adjectives at 24 months were positively associated with the use of a taxonomic matching strategy at 3 years of age.…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Body Language, Child Behavior, Classification
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Moss, Ellen; Bureau, Jean-Francois; Cyr, Chantal; Mongeau, Chantal; St-Laurent, Diane – Developmental Psychology, 2004
This study examined correlates of attachment at age 3 to further validate preschool separation-reunion measures. Three-year-olds (N = 150) and their mothers participated in a separation-reunion protocol, the Preschool Attachment Classification System (PACS: J. Cassidy & R. S. Marvin with the MacArthur Working Group on Attachment, 1992), and a…
Descriptors: Interaction, Child Behavior, Behavior Problems, Mothers
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Developmental Psychology, 2006
The relations between early infant-mother attachment and children's social competence and behavior problems during the preschool and early school-age period were examined in more than 1,000 children under conditions of decreasing, stable, and increasing maternal parenting quality. Infants' Strange Situation attachment classifications predicted…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Interpersonal Competence, Child Rearing, Behavior Problems