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Peer reviewedLiben, Lynn S.; Susman, Elizabeth J.; Finkelstein, Jordan W.; Chinchilli, Vernon M.; Kunselman, Susan; Schwab, Jacqueline; Dubas, Judith Semon; Demers, Laurence M.; Lookingbill, Georgia; D'Arcangelo, M. Rose; Krogh, Holleen R.; Kulin, Howard E. – Developmental Psychology, 2002
Investigated the relationship between sex hormones and spatial performance among adolescents treated with sex steroids for delayed puberty. Found that spatial performance varied according to gender but did not vary with levels of actively circulating sex steroids. Reviewed physiological mechanisms, developmental periods, and past empirical work…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Development, Perceptual Development, Physical Development
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
Download full textGochman, David S.; And Others – 1969
This study continued to replicate and extend research dealing with children's perceptions of vulnerability to health problems. Responses of 774 children, 8 to 17 years old, to 15 questions about the likelihood of encountering various health problems confirmed previous results indicating that perceived vulnerability is consistent across health…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Dental Health, Health Conditions
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
Pedersen, Frank A. – 1975
This study investigates three types of reciprocal interactions among members of the family unit (father, mother and infant): father-infant interaction affecting child's development, father-infant interaction affecting mother's behavior, and husband-wife interaction affecting mother's behavior. Data from a sample of 39 healthy first-born infants…
Descriptors: Child Development, Family Relationship, Fathers, Infant Behavior
Keogh, 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
Kalliopuska, Mirja, Ed. – 1995
The third Fenno-Hungarian Conference on Developmental Psychology covered four main concepts: the historical roots and development of social competence through three generations, parent-child interaction, parenthood, and the development of socio-cognitive competence through childhood and adolescence. A series of papers was presented addressing the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Careers, Child Development, Children
