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Hülür, Gizem; Gasimova, Fidan; Robitzsch, Alexander; Wilhelm, Oliver – Child Development, 2018
Intellectual engagement (IE) refers to enjoyment of intellectual activities and is proposed as causal for knowledge acquisition. The role of IE for cognitive development was examined utilizing 2-year longitudinal data from 112 ninth graders (average baseline age: 14.7 years). Higher baseline IE predicted higher baseline crystallized ability but…
Descriptors: Intellectual Experience, Learner Engagement, Cognitive Development, Longitudinal Studies
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Zeskind, Philip Sanford; Ramey, Craig T. – Child Development, 1981
Presents longitudinal data regarding detrimental effects through 36 months of age on intellectual, behavioral, and social-interactional development in a nonsupportive caregiving environment, and the continuing amelioration of those effects in a supportive caregiving environment. Suggests that mothers of fetally malnourished infants may have had…
Descriptors: Infant Behavior, Infants, Intellectual Development, Intelligence Differences
Worland, Julien; And Others – 1981
Retrospective studies of the intellectual performances of children who later became psychotic adults have yielded evidence of early interference in the development of intelligence in future schizophrenics. The intellectual assessments of 153 children were examined during two test periods in the St. Louis Risk Research Project. In 1967-1972, the…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Children, Cohort Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education
Ramey, Craig T.; Haskins, Ron – 1979
Infants judged to be at risk for subnormal intellectual growth were randomly assigned to an experimental (N=27) or a control (N=25) group. Infants in both groups received medical care and dietary supplements; their families received social work services on a request basis. Experimental children participated in an educational day care program…
Descriptors: Child Development, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Early Experience