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| Develop Psychol | 4 |
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| Bronson, Gordon W. | 1 |
| Cairns, Robert B. | 1 |
| Fleener, Don E. | 1 |
| Freedle, Roy | 1 |
| Kagan, Jerome | 1 |
| Lewis, Michael | 1 |
| McCall, Robert B. | 1 |
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Fleener, Don E.; Cairns, Robert B. – Develop Psychol, 1970
Study of 64 infants showed that (1) once infants began to cry, they tended to persist, (2) only older infants specifically missed their mothers, and (3) tendency to cry was not related to maternal responsiveness or sex of child. (MH)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Infant Behavior, Parent Child Relationship
Freedle, Roy; Lewis, Michael – Develop Psychol, 1970
Outlines a method by which observation time as measured by visual fixation on an object in the visual field can be predicted for N items viewed simultaneously in the field when the time for observing each item presented singly is known. (Author/MG)
Descriptors: Attention Span, Infant Behavior, Research Methodology, Visual Perception
McCall, Robert B.; Kagan, Jerome – Develop Psychol, 1970
Results of this study of 72 4-month-old infants suggest caution in using an overt demonstration of habituation as a necessary index of perceptual learning. (Author/MG)
Descriptors: Attention Span, Infant Behavior, Perceptual Development, Reaction Time
Bronson, Gordon W. – Develop Psychol, 1970
Longitudinal data concerning fear responses in 30 boys and 30 girls observed from ages one month to 8 1/2 years suggest that in males--but not in females--a predisposition to a particular level of fearfulness is set by events that occurred before 6 months of age. (Author/MG)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Infant Behavior
