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Babik, Iryna; Galloway, James Cole; Lobo, Michele A. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Early exploratory behaviors have been proposed to facilitate children's learning, impacting motor, cognitive, language, and social development. This study related the performance of behaviors used to explore oneself to behaviors used to explore objects, and then related both types of exploratory behaviors to motor, language, and cognitive measures…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Motor Development
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Moss, Katrina M.; Simcock, Gabrielle; Cobham, Vanessa; Kildea, Sue; Elgbeili, Guillaume; Laplante, David P.; King, Suzanne – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Fetal exposure to prenatal maternal stress can have lifelong consequences, with different types of maternal stress associated with different areas of child development. Fewer studies have focused on motor skills, even though they are strongly predictive of later development across a range of domains. Research on mechanisms of transmission has…
Descriptors: Correlation, Stress Variables, Natural Disasters, Mothers
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Woods, Rebecca J.; Wilcox, Teresa – Developmental Psychology, 2013
A hierarchical progression in infants' ability to use surface features, such as color, as a basis for object individuation in the first year has been well established (Tremoulet, Leslie, & Hall, 2000; Wilcox, 1999). There is evidence, however, that infants' sensitivity to surface features can be increased through multisensory (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Infants, Human Posture, Motor Development, Object Manipulation
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Bornstein, Marc H.; Arterberry, Martha E. – Developmental Psychology, 2010
Multiple levels of category inclusiveness in 4 object domains (animals, vehicles, fruit, and furniture) were examined using a sequential touching procedure and assessed in both individual and group analyses in eighty 12-, 18-, 24-, and 30-month-olds. The roles of stimulus discriminability and child motor development, fatigue, and actions were also…
Descriptors: Young Children, Classification, Motor Development, Cognitive Processes
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Cicchino, Jessica B.; Rakison, David H. – Developmental Psychology, 2008
Three experiments investigated 5- through 8-month-olds' ability to encode self-propelled and caused motion and examined whether processing of motion onset changes when crawling begins. Infants were habituated (Experiments 1 and 2) or familiarized (Experiment 3) with simple causal and noncausal launching events. They then viewed the caused-to-move…
Descriptors: Infants, Motion, Experiments, Habituation
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Beilin, Harry – Developmental Psychology, 1992
Describes Jean Piaget's transformation of society's conception of childhood thought. Emphasizes the enduring contribution to developmental psychology of Piaget's constructivism, his description of developmental mechanisms, his cognitivism, his explication of structural and functional analysis, and his addressing of epistemological issues and…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Developmental Psychology, Epistemology
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Wilson, Ronald S.; Harpring, Eileen B. – Developmental Psychology, 1972
The conclusion from these results is that while prenatal anomalies or an impoverished home environment may retard development, in the majority of cases the environmental conditions fall within the limits of sufficiency that permit the genetic blueprint to determine the course of infant development. (Authors)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Environmental Influences, Infants, Motor Development
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Rosenblith, Judy F. – Developmental Psychology, 1974
Reports on a portion of a long-term investigation carried out to determine the prognostic significance of newborn behavioral assessments for later development and behavior, in terms of identifying a subpopulation which would be a high risk group. (Author/SDH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Developmental Psychology, Emotional Development, Infant Behavior
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Plumert, Jodie M. – Developmental Psychology, 1995
Two experiments examined developmental changes in accuracy of judgments about physical abilities in primary school children and college students. Subjects were asked to complete four physical tasks with and without benefit of practice. Found that children overestimated their physical abilities, individual differences in overestimation related to…
Descriptors: Accidents, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Motor Development
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Rosenblith, Judy F. – Developmental Psychology, 1992
Bayley's major contributions to developmental psychology are reviewed. These include her concern with measurement and methodology and her early anticipation of such topics as behavior genetics. Her work in such areas as androgyny and body build, motor and mental development, and maternal and child behaviors is summarized. (LB)
Descriptors: Androgyny, Child Development Specialists, Cognitive Development, Developmental Psychology
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Bendersky, Margaret; Lewis, Michael – Developmental Psychology, 1994
Examined the impact of 2 environmental factors--social class and family risk levels--and 2 biological factors--intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) and medical risk--on the cognitive and motor development of 175 preterm infants. Family risk, early medical risk, and the interaction of family risk and IVH were found to be significant predictors of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, At Risk Persons, Biological Influences, Cognitive Development