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Sanchez, Rebecca P.; Brown, Emily; DeRosier, Melissa E. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2015
Educators, policymakers, and the general public agree that social skills should be taught to children. In an effort to bridge this gap between evidence-based social skills training and populations in need, the authors have developed an Intelligent Social Tutoring System (ISTS) that fosters learning through adaptive interaction between the student…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Online Courses, Electronic Learning
Coch, Donna, Ed.; Fischer, Kurt W., Ed.; Dawson, Geraldine, Ed. – Guilford Publications, 2010
This volume brings together leading authorities from multiple disciplines to examine the relationship between brain development and behavior in typically developing children. Presented are innovative cross-sectional and longitudinal studies that shed light on brain-behavior connections in infancy and toddlerhood through adolescence. Chapters…
Descriptors: Infants, Personality, Short Term Memory, Recognition (Psychology)
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Majdandzic, Mirjana; van den Boom, Dymphna C.; Heesbeen, Daniella G. M. – Developmental Psychology, 2008
The authors of the present study addressed the measurement of temperament by examining the convergence between observational and questionnaire measures and the occurrence of contrast effects in parental ratings of nontwin siblings on the Children's Behavior Questionnaire. Fathers', mothers', and observers' ratings of 94 early-school-age sibling…
Descriptors: Shyness, Siblings, Personality, Measurement
Kenrick, Douglas T.; And Others – 1978
Prior research has indicated that, although negative mood induction procedures reliably lead to enhanced helping in adults, such procedures do not produce increased helping in young children. Consistent with the negative state relief model, it was expected that, relative to neutral mood subjects, children in a negative mood would be more generous…
Descriptors: Altruism, Attitudes, Behavior Development, Child Development
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Yahav, Rivka – American Journal of Family Therapy, 2002
Investigated families of children with internalized versus externalized symptoms according to linear and curvilinear conceptions of circumplex model. It was hypothesized that externalized symptoms would result in family being classified as chaotic and disengaged, whereas internalized symptoms would result in being classified as rigid and enmeshed.…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems
National Center for Health Statistics (DHEW/PHS), Hyattsville, MD. – 1972
This report presents information on the interrelation of selected behavioral characteristics of children six to eleven years of age as obtained in the Health Examination Survey of 1963-65. Data were obtained from the parents on a self-administered medical history questionnaire and a more detailed supplemental medical history administered by a…
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Children