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Early Exploration of One's Own Body, Exploration of Objects, and Motor, Language, and Cognitive Development Relate Dynamically across the First Two Years of Life
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Babik, Iryna; Galloway, James Cole; Lobo, Michele A. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Early exploratory behaviors have been proposed to facilitate children's learning, impacting motor, cognitive, language, and social development. This study related the performance of behaviors used to explore oneself to behaviors used to explore objects, and then related both types of exploratory behaviors to motor, language, and cognitive measures…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Motor Development
Temporal, Contextual, and Relational Variability of Maternal Mind-Mindedness and Child Communicative Development in the Second Year of Life
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Emiddia Longobardi; Pietro Spataro; Martina Calabrò; Matilde Brunetti; Mara Morelli; Fiorenzo Laghi – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
We report two studies that investigated the continuity and stability of maternal mind-mindedness (MM) across different times, contexts, and relationships, and also examined child communicative development in the second year of life. Three main findings emerged. First, the percentages of appropriate mind-related comments (AMRC) decreased between 16…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Mothers, Communication Skills, Toddlers
Infants' Joint Attention Skills Predict Toddlers' Emerging Mental State Language
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Kristen, Susanne; Sodian, Beate; Thoermer, Claudia; Perst, Hannah – Developmental Psychology, 2011
To assess predictive relations between joint attention skills, intention understanding, and mental state vocabulary, 88 children were tested with measures of comprehension of gaze and referential pointing, as well as the production of declarative gestures and the comprehension and production of imperative gestures, at the ages of 7-18 months.…
Descriptors: Evidence, Imitation, Intention, Toddlers
Researches into Preschool Education: Issues and Evidence.
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Clark, Margaret M. – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1989
Suggests that experimental studies are valuable in analyzing children's language development. Criticizes the scarcity of experimental and naturalistic investigation into preschool language development. Calls for long-term study of continuity and discontinuity in children's school and home learning and between different school stages. Observes that…
Descriptors: Child Language, Developmental Continuity, Experiments, Language Acquisition
For Some and Not Others: Developmental Perspectives on the Challenges of Change and Continuity.
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Durkin, Kevin – Social Development, 2001
Asserts that Bennett's edited work offers an informed, sophisticated, and thought-provoking overview of current issues in developmental psychology. Notes the volume prompts theoretical and empirical reflection and provides fair representation of trends and advances in mainstream child developmental psychology. Suggests that a more thematic…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Cognitive Development, Developmental Continuity, Developmental Psychology
The Ohio Early Childhood Curriculum Guide: Birth through Age Eight [and] The Early Childhood Identification Process: A Manual for Screening and Assessment.
Ohio State Dept. of Education, Columbus. – 1991
Two guides for practitioners, one concerning early childhood curriculum and the other concerning the early childhood identification process are presented in this document. The curriculum guide, which constitutes the bulk of this package, approaches early childhood curriculum issues from the developmental perspective. The first section of the guide…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Communication Skills, Curriculum Development
Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom Ages 4-14. A Resource for Parents and Teachers. [Second Edition.]
Wood, Chip – 1997
Expanded from its previous edition to include ages 13 and 14, this book provides teachers and parents with a quick reference on important childhood developmental issues, explaining what children should be learning and doing in the classroom at each developmental stage. The book begins by discussing how developmental issues can affect…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Age Differences, Child Development