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Groome, Lynne J.; And Others – Child Development, 1997
Examined consistency in behavioral state organization for 30 fetuses and neonates. Assessed heart rate pattern and presence or absence of eye and gross body movements during sleep, finding quiet sleep (QS), active sleep (AS), and indeterminate states in nearly identical proportions. Duration of enclosed QS epochs provided only stable measure of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Infant Behavior
Cole, Jean Gardner – 1993
The behavior of the infant with prenatal drug exposure (PDE) is different from a nonexposed infant, and it is a difference that changes the rules of interaction for the caregiver. Infants exposed to opiates such as heroin or methadone demonstrate very specific signs of neurobehavioral dysfunction as they go through classic withdrawal symptoms.…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Caregiver Child Relationship, Caregiver Role
Davis, Flora – 1973
Information gathered from one and a half years of interviews with anthropologists, psychologists, ethologists, sociologists, and psychiatrists provides the source of answers for the questions this book addresses: How much do we communicate with words, and how much with gestures, postures, and movement? What can we learn from the study of nonverbal…
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Sciences