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Wachs, Theodore D. – Developmental Psychology, 1987
Tested the generalizability of the specificity model of environmental action to the domain of mastery motivation in infants. Found that the specificity model successfully predicted that aspects of the environment uniquely related to dimensions of mastery motivation, and that infant sex and temperament mediated the relation of environment to…
Descriptors: Child Development, Experiential Learning, Family Environment, Infants