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Saco-Pollitt, Carmen – Child Development, 1981
Neonates born without complications to healthy mothers at 14,000 feet or at 490 feet above sea level were evaluated at 24-36- and 48-60-hours-of-life. In comparison with low-altitude infants, high-altitude infants were significantly lighter, shorter, had a smaller arm circumference, and presented more signs of behavioral immaturity in interactive…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Comparative Analysis, Environmental Influences, Foreign Countries
Frankova, S. – Nutritio et Dieta, 1972
Deals with some of the important relations between mother and environmental factors in their effects on an infant somatic and behavioral development. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Cognitive Development, Early Experience, Environmental Influences
Serafica, Felicisima C. – 1973
This study analyzes the effects of one environmental property, illumination, as part of a general program to isolate differential effects of specific properties of the novel environment on attachment behaviors in infants and young children. Attachment is operationalized into two response classes: (1) proximity to the mother, and (2) contact with…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Development, Behavioral Science Research, Child Development
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Brazelton, T. B. – Human Development, 1972
From a symposium on Cross-Cultural Studies of Mother-Infant Interaction at the Biennial Meeting for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, Minn., April 2, 1971. (MB)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Development, Child Rearing, Cross Cultural Studies
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Horowitz, Frances Degen – 1977
This paper discusses issues connected with the reliability of the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS) in terms of behavior prediction, neonatal behavioral organization and stability, and consequent implications for study of newborns. Discussion focuses on: (1) reliability, and (2) prediction and neonatal assessment. The NBAS is seen as a…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Rating Scales, Child Development, Environmental Influences
National Inst. of Child Health and Human Development (NIH), Bethesda, MD. – 1968
The work of four task forces on human deprivation is reported. Aspects of deprivation treated include psychosocial deprivation and personality development; influences of biological, psychological, and social deprivations upon learning and performance; socialization and social structure; and biological substrates of development and behavior. For…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Biological Influences, Cognitive Development, Disadvantaged
Brazelton, T. Berry; Greenspan, Stanley I. – 2000
Noting that although there have been admirable initiatives in public health, education, pediatrics, and the law to improve the lot of children, few have tried to identify the fundamental requirements of a healthy childhood, this book explores seven needs of infants and young children and their families that provide the fundamental building blocks…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Development, Child Rearing, Child Safety