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Neonatal Precursors of Infant Behavior.
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Yang, Raymond K.; Moss, Howard A. – Developmental Psychology, 1978
Ninety-two clinically normal infants (48 male, 44 female) were tested at 2 and 90 days of age to examine the continuity of newborn behavior through early infancy across a broad range of behaviors. (MP)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Factor Analysis, Infant Behavior, Infants
Sex Differences in Toddlers' Behavior and Parental Reaction
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Fagot, Beverly I. – Developmental Psychology, 1974
Investigated sex differences in the behavior patterns of toddlers and subsequent parental reactions. Data was obtained from observations in the homes of subjects, and compared to parents' answers on a child rearing questionnaire. (DP)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Child Rearing, Observation
Effects of Maternal Employment and Child-Care Arrangements on Preschoolers' Cognitive and Behavioral Outcomes: Evidence from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth.
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Baydar, Nazli; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne – Developmental Psychology, 1991
Secondary analyses indicated that maternal employment in children's first year had detrimental effects on cognitive and behavioral development. Grandmother care was beneficial for the cognitive development of children in poverty. For behavioral development, mother care was beneficial for boys and babysitter care for girls. (BC)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Cognitive Development, Day Care, Employed Parents
Gender Labeling and the Adoption of Sex-Typed Behaviors
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Fagot, Beverly I.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Tests the ability of 43 children, ranging in age from 20 months to 40 months, to discriminate between pictures of boys and girls and male and female adults. Compares children who passed this gender-task with those who failed it on three behaviors most often categorized as sex-typed: toy choice, aggression, and peer playmate selection. (HOD)
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Development
Developmental Precursors of Externalizing Behavior: Ages 1 to 3.
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Shaw, Daniel S.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1994
Mothers and infants were observed in the laboratory when the infants were 12, 18, and 24 months. Mothers reported their child's behavior at 36 months. Predictors of boys' externalizing behavior at two and three years were maternal unresponsiveness and infant attention seeking, aggression, and noncompliance. For girls, infant noncompliance was…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Development, Behavior Problems, Child Behavior
Sex and Contextual Effects on Children's Use of Interference Competition.
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Roy, Rosanne; Benenson, Joyce F. – Developmental Psychology, 2002
Compared boys' and girls' use of interference competition during game play when resources were scarce or plentiful, among children from kindergarten or fourth grade. Found that fourth-grade girls used less interference competition when resources were plentiful, while their male peers and kindergartners of both sexes used interference competition…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Behavior, Competition, Elementary Education
Children's Attributions Regarding the Situational Determinants of Emotion in Self and Others.
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Strayer, Janet – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Investigates children's person-by-situation knowledge of probable causes of emotion in self and in others, and compares this to adults' construals. Shows that children can generate contextual explanations for affective states in self and others that are both shared by other children and adults and selectively related to different kinds of…
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Attribution Theory