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Gelman, Susan A.; Waxman, Sandra R.; Kleinberg, Felicia – Cognitive Development, 2008
Mother-child conversations about pictures systematically differ from mother-child conversations about objects: Pictures are more likely than objects to elicit talk about kinds, whereas objects are more likely than pictures to elicit talk about individuals. The purpose of the current study is to examine whether this difference between pictures and…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Mothers, Concept Formation, Child Development
Stafford, Richard E. – 1963
This study on psychological traits examines three hypotheses: (1) there is a similarity between parents and their children unexplained by a similarity between the parents, (2) this similarity may be explained by hereditary components, and (3) these hereditary components are of the discrete or segregated type of inheritance. There were 104 families…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Arithmetic, Association (Psychology), Auditory Discrimination