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Normative Development of Physical Aggression from 8 to 26 Months
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Naerde, Ane; Ogden, Terje; Janson, Harald; Zachrisson, Henrik Daae – Developmental Psychology, 2014
This study investigated the normative use and developmental course of physical aggression (PA), defined as use of physical force such as hitting, biting, and kicking, from 8 to 26 months and predictors thereof. We used data from the Behavior Outlook Norwegian Developmental Study, comprising 1,159 children (559 girls and 600 boys). Both mothers and…
Descriptors: Aggression, Developmental Stages, Developmental Psychology, Toddlers
Developmental and Cross-Situational Stability in Infant Pigtailed Macaque Temperament
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Sussman, Adrienne; Ha, James – Developmental Psychology, 2011
We assessed developmental stability and context generalizability of temperament in pigtailed macaques ("Macaca nemestrina") from the University of Washington Infant Primate Research Lab. A principal components analysis condensed 6 behavioral measures into 2 components, interpreted as reactivity and boldness. Changes in these measures over the 1st…
Descriptors: Animals, Personality Traits, Developmental Stages, Context Effect
Differential Effects of Social and Non-Social Reward on Response Inhibition in Children and Adolescents
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Kohls, Gregor; Peltzer, Judith; Herpertz-Dahlmann, Beate; Konrad, Kerstin – Developmental Science, 2009
An important issue in the field of clinical and developmental psychopathology is whether cognitive control processes, such as response inhibition, can be specifically enhanced by motivation. To determine whether non-social (i.e. monetary) and social (i.e. positive facial expressions) rewards are able to differentially improve response inhibition…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Incentives, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Inhibition
The Down Syndrome Behavioural Phenotype: Taking a Developmental Approach
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Fidler, Deborah; Most, David; Philofsky, Amy – Down Syndrome Research and Practice, 2009
Individuals with Down syndrome are predisposed to show a specific behavioural phenotype, or a pattern of strengths and challenges in functioning across different domains of development. It is argued that a developmental approach to researching the Down syndrome behavioural phenotype, including an examination of the dynamic process of the unfolding…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Behavior Problems, Developmental Psychology, Genetics
A Psychodynamic View of Counseling Psychology.
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Bordin, Edward S. – Counseling Psychologist, 1980
Discusses ways that psychodynamic, including psychoanalytic, ideas can be applied to the tasks of the counseling psychologist. The counseling psychologist's developmental counseling orientation should be broadened to include all of the stages of the life cycle, not just the adolescent period. (Author)
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Counseling Theories, Decision Making, Developmental Psychology
Educating for Teacher Growth: A Cognitive-Developmental Perspective.
Sprinthall, Norman; Thies-Sprinthall, Lois – 1981
It is time for the teacher education profession to take more systematic steps for the advancement of theory, research, and practice in the teacher education field. A cognitive-developmental perspective on teacher education curriculum avoids the choice between cognitive and affective goals by providing a dual focus on highly specific behavioral…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Cognitive Development, Developmental Psychology, Developmental Stages