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Peer reviewedGoldberg, Richard T. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1974
An invisible disability with severe physical limitations has less deleterious effects upon social adjustment than does a visible disability without physical limitations. (Author)
Descriptors: Children, Emotional Adjustment, Individual Development, Physical Disabilities
Hunt, J. McVicker – International Understanding, 1974
This study examines object construction and the ages at which children developing under various environmental conditions achieve five of the landmarks in the Uzgiris-Hunt (1974) scale of object permanence. (Author)
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Environmental Influences
Peer reviewedAmmerman, Mary S.; Fryrear, Jerry L. – Psychology in the Schools, 1975
The purpose of the present study was to enhance children's self-esteem through a five week self-photography project which provided each child in the experimental group with 60 pictures of himself in different poses. Fourth grade children were selected for both low subjective self-esteem and low behavioral self-esteem. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Body Image, Children, Individual Development
Download full textNakamura, Charles Y. – 1973
This report presents the rationale, methods, and results of research that was planned to develop a way of identifying relatively effective children. The report contains the conceptual bases and development of the Hypothetical Situation Questionnaire (HSQ) as the means for distinguishing effective children. The HSQ contains three subscales that…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Children, Individual Development, Orientation
Feshbach, Norma Deitch; Hoffman, Michael Arthur – 1978
Elementary school boys and girls are highly similar with regards to the events they describe as emotionally arousing fear, sadness, anger, happiness, and pride. One hundred and sixty (160) White, Black, Chicano, and Asian-American boys and girls from kindergarten, second, third, fourth, and sixth grades freely described the situation that most…
Descriptors: Children, Developmental Stages, Emotional Experience, Empathy
Peer reviewedForness, Steven R.; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1976
Sixty-one children, originally identified at the beginning of kindergarten on the basis of four distinct clusters of observable classroom behavior, were evaluated at completion of first grade. Children in the nonrisk cluster continued to do well, while children in the high-risk cluster were still doing poorly in some areas. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Behavior Problems, Children
Kane, Barbara – 1977
This research attempted to expand Piaget's study of children's thinking to include the content and the development of their concepts of death and the impact of experience on those concepts. One hundred twenty-two, middle-class, native-born boys and girls, aged three through twelve years were interviewed. Concepts were found to be composed of nine…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
Peer reviewedKierscht, Marcia Selland; Vietze, Peter M. – Psychology in the Schools, 1975
Low income and middle income four- and five-year old children were shown stimuli in three forms: objects, colored pictures, and black and white line drawings taken from commonly used assessment instruments, and were asked to label the stimuli. Results indicated both groups of children labeled the objects more successfully than the pictures.…
Descriptors: Children, Culture Fair Tests, Elementary Education, Individual Development
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Bildungsforschung, Berlin (West Germany). – 1991
The Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Education in Germany consists of four research centers dealing with the following topics: sociology and the study of the life course; development and socialization; psychology and human development; and school systems and instruction. This English-language annual report of the Planck Institute,…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Developmental Stages, Educational Research
National Institutes of Health (DHHS), Bethesda, MD. – 1981
Research programs of the human learning and behavior branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHHD) are described in five sections of this document. The specific programs conducted in the areas of learning and cognitive development, development of communicative abilities, biological bases of behavioral development,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Behavior, Behavior Development
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This group of eight bulletins provides abstracts on research relating to children reported to the Clearinghouse for Research in Child Life from July 1962 to August 1968. Abstracts are organized by topic area: (1) "Long Term Research"; (2) "Growth and Development," including general, physical, perceptual, cognitive, motor,…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adjustment (to Environment), Annotated Bibliographies, Child Development
