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Direct linkSuor, Jennifer H.; Sturge-Apple, Melissa L.; Davies, Patrick T.; Cicchetti, Dante – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2017
Harsh environments are known to predict deficits in children's cognitive abilities. Life history theory approaches challenge this interpretation, proposing stressed children's cognition becomes specialized to solve problems in fitness-enhancing ways. The goal of this study was to examine associations between early environmental harshness and…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Environment, Path Analysis, Problem Solving, Personality Traits
Fontenelle, Sarah A.; Kahrs, Bjorn Alexander; Neal, S. Ashley; Newton, A. Taylor; Lockman, Jeffrey J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2007
Everyday environments, even small regions within reach, vary dramatically in terms of material composition. Adapting one's manual behavior to such transitions can be considered to be an important element of skilled action. To investigate the origins of this ability, we presented 8-month-olds (n=24) and 10-month-olds (n=24) hard or soft objects on…
Descriptors: Infants, Problem Solving, Perception Tests, Tactual Perception
Peer reviewedCasey, M. Beth – Developmental Psychology, 1979
Descriptors: Color, Discrimination Learning, Infant Behavior, Infants
Kercood, Suneeta; Grskovic, Janice A.; Lee, David L.; Emmert, Stacey – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2007
This study evaluated the effectiveness of fine motor physical activity with tactile stimulation during two conditions of math problem solving, visual and auditory. Eight 4th and 5th grade students with attention problems participated. Using an alternating treatments design, students solved as many math story problems as they could, presented on…
Descriptors: Stimulation, Physical Activities, Problem Solving, Word Problems (Mathematics)
Bourgeois, Kristine S.; Khawar, Alexa W.; Neal, S. Ashley; Lockman, Jeffrey J. – Infancy, 2005
Although a considerable amount is known about the development of object manipulation during the 1st year, less is known about how infants manually explore surfaces and relate objects to surfaces. To address these issues, 60 infants (20 each at 6, 8, and 10 months of age) were presented hard and soft objects on tabletop surfaces, which varied in…
Descriptors: Object Manipulation, Infants, Tactual Perception, Stimuli
Download full textKempf, Sharon Hartwell – 1970
Sporadically, across the country, experimental day care centers for the very young child (eight weeks to three years of age) are coming into existence. Some authorities in the child development and child welfare field advocate this move because they believe that infant day care is the head start deprived children need; and that the present head…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Welfare, Children, Day Care
Honig, Alice S. – 1972
A study of the advantages and disadvantages of various types of infant care provided by someone other than the mother is presented. Problems listed as occurring in intervention programs include: maternal-child attachment, individual differences among infants, planning problems, and emotional-social development. Types of intervention studied are:…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Child Development, Emotional Development, Evaluation
