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Peer reviewedReznick, J. Steven; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Observed a group of 46 children classified at 20 months as either behaviorally inhibited or uninhibited, and 18 children who were classified aa falling at neither extreme at 5.5 years of age, in contexts designed to evaluate behavior in social situations and heart rate, heart variability, and pupillary dilation to cognitive tasks. (HOD)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis
Download full textTizard, Jack; Tizard, Barbara – 1967
This study focuses upon some aspects of the social behavior of 2-year-old children being reared in long-stay residential nurseries. These children are compared with working class 2-year-old children being raised in two-parent homes in which the mother is not working full-time and there are no older siblings of preschool age. All children were…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Family Environment
Ishimine, Mitsuko – 1987
This study, which focused on the social behavior of 4-year-old children toward peers and adults, investigated relationships of 54 children in California and Japan who were observed for 20 minutes while they were playing in preschool or day care. All their behaviors during the first 30 seconds were observed and written down during the second 30…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Development, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies
Peer reviewedSternberg, Kathleen J.; And Others – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1991
Preschool Swedish children were observed with their mothers in situations designed to allow assessment of their compliance with maternal demands. Children were more compliant in the task situation at 40 months when they had experienced high quality care at home, when they were older, and when they had experienced less out-of-home care prior to 24…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Comparative Analysis, Compliance (Psychology), Day Care Centers
Peer reviewedLorimier, Sylvie de; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1995
Examined the role of pretend play interactions in stimulating social and emotional competence by comparing the quality of pretend and nonpretend social play. Found that pretend play involved more complex, mutually responsive, and emotionally invested social interaction than nonpretend play. Expression of psychosocial issues within pretense was…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Behavior Development, Child Behavior, Child Development
Peer reviewedEckerman, Carol O.; Whitehead, Harriet – Early Education and Development, 1999
Tested a proposed developmental pathway for toddlers' mastery of skills in generating non-ritualized forms of cooperative coordinated action with peers. Studied nonverbal imitative acts among U.S. toddlers and toddlers of the Seltaman people of Papua New Guinea. Found that ready imitation of one another emerged during the same developmental period…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Behavior, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies
