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Paine, Patricia Ann; Pasquali, Luiz – Developmental Psychology, 1984
The early psychomotor development (DQ) of 29 term small-for-gestational-age Brazilian infants was shown to be more dependent on postnatal growth than the DQ of 51 term appropriate-for-gestational-age infants. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Birth Weight, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries

Eckerman, Carol O.; Hsu, Hui-Chin; Molitor, Adriana; Leung, Eleanor H. L.; Goldstein, Ricki F. – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Compared arousal during peekaboo game of low birthweight infants with higher or lower perinatal risk to that of healthy full-term infants. Found that low birthweight babies showed less positive arousal, more negative arousal, and three mixtures of behavioral cues than full-term babies, who showed strong positive and negative responses. Perinatal…
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, At Risk Persons, Behavior Development, Birth Weight