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Peer reviewedEliot, John; Dayton, C. Mitchell – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1976
This study was undertaken to determine the relative contribution of age, sex, and three stimulus features (board shape, block arrangement, and block shape) to perceptual accuracy on 39 board/block adaptations of Piaget's three-mountain task. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Egocentrism
Peer reviewedSuter, Barbara; And Others – Journal of Psychology, 1980
Sex and, to a partial degree, age had significant effects on sex role differentiation in preschool children, but income level had little effect. (Author/RL)
Descriptors: Child Development, Family Environment, Perception, Perceptual Development
Peer reviewedSeegmiller, Bonni R. – Journal of Psychology, 1980
Shows that the mother's being employed and the social status of her job were unrelated to preschool children's sex role differentiation. Reports significant main effects for child's sex and for the relation between sex of child and sex of siblings. (Author/RL)
Descriptors: Child Development, Employed Parents, Employed Women, Family Environment
Download full textKeogh, Barbara K. – 1970
This study was designed to consider effects of age, sex, intelligence, lateral usage, and lateral awareness on young children's performance of spatial organization tasks. The sample consisted of 79 Caucasian, middle socioeconomic status nursery school children (mean C.A. 57.80, S.D. 4.47 months), 44 boys and 35 girls. Spatial organization was…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Lateral Dominance, Nursery Schools
Hartup, Willard W., Ed. – 1972
This is volume 2 of research reviews of studies about young children. It is a sampling of information about child development research in the form of 16 review articles. Particulars of research illustrate varied strategies used by contemporary scientists. It illustrates problem attack and evaluation of information. Subjects include: About…
Descriptors: Aggression, Anxiety, Attention, Child Development
Ives, William, Comp. – 1979
More than 300 citations of books, articles, and conference papers published primarily within the last 20 years are listed with brief descriptions. The works include discussions of developmental theory, art education, art criticism, aesthetics, and philosophy of science as well as experimental studies. Research topics cover aspects of cognition…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Art Appreciation, Art Education, Artists
PARKER, RONALD K. – 1968
DESCRIBED ARE THE COMPONENTS OF PROJECT KNOW HOW (PKH), AN OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM. DESIGNED TO ATTACK INDIVIDUAL FAMILIAL POVERTY, PKH INVOLVES A PRESCHOOL TRAINING PROGRAM BEGINNING IN THE FIRST YEAR OF LIFE AND CONTINUING TO SCHOOL AGE, A SALARIED ASSISTING MOTHERS PROGRAM, A FATHER'S PROGRAM, AND A FAMILY HEALTH…
Descriptors: Achievement, Child Development, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods
Witmer, Helen L., Ed. – 1967
One of a series of reports on the findings of studies of child health and welfare services and of matters relevant to providing such services is presented. The primary purpose of the series is to promote the utilization of research findings by those who make policy and those who administer programs in the fields of child health and welfare. In the…
Descriptors: Adoption, Affection, Child Development, Child Rearing
Kagan, Jerome; And Others – 1975
This is a partial report of a longitudinal investigation designed to assess the psychological effects of an experimentally conducted day care program on children during the first 30 months of life. The experimental subjects were Chinese and Caucasian children from working and middle class families who were cared for at a special group care center…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Attention, Child Development, Child Rearing
