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Gewirtz, Jacob L. – Merrill-Palmer Quart, 1969
Paper presented at the Merrill-Palmer Institute on Research and Training of Infant Development (Detroit, Mich., Feb. 15-17, 1968).
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Child Development, Infants, Interaction Process Analysis
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Dickerscheid, Jean D.; Kirkpatrick, Sue W. – Home Economics Research Journal, 1972
Home and family conditions were found to have an effect on verbal interaction patterns between mothers and persons in the home. (Authors)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Child Development, Environmental Influences
Flapan, Dorothy – 1968
To investigate children's ability to describe and make inferences about feelings, thoughts, and intentions that occur in interpersonal relationships, 60 middle class girls were divided into three age groups: 6, 9, and 12 years. Each group viewed two sections of a movie portraying episodes of social interaction. After each section, the children…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Child Development
Baer, Donald M. – 1966
An important approach to understanding child behavior and development is the experimental analysis of such behavior. The experimental analysis procedure must be distinguished from related analyses used occasionally. An analysis by anecdote is an analysis based upon the accumulation of recurring associations; for example, B followed by A. This does…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Theories, Behavioral Science Research, Child Development
O'Malley, J. Michael – 1975
The purposes of this paper are: (1) to identify uses of the term social competence for preschool and early school children, with origins directly in research, and (2) to formulate a definition of social competence reflecting consensus across three different research perspectives. From an ethnological perspective, social competence consists of…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Educational Research
Nelson, Linden – 1970
Six experiments were designed in order to compare the cooperative and competitive interaction of five-year-olds with that of older children up to age 10. For all experiments, children of the same age and same sex were matched in dyads. The children played various two-person games where they could obtain prizes in a variety of reward contingency…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Age Differences, Behavioral Objectives, Behavioral Science Research
COX, SAMUEL H. – 1966
IT WAS HYPOTHESIZED THAT FOUR PRIMARY FACTORS SIGNIFICANTLY INTERACT TO AFFECT THE PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN. THESE FACTORS WERE (1) FAMILY BACKGROUND VARIABLES, (2) PARENTAL CHILD-REARING PRACTICE AND ATTITUDE VARIABLES, (3) CHILD PERSONALITY AND SELF-CONCEPT VARIABLES, AND (4) CHILD-PEER RELATIONSHIP VARIABLES. THE PURPOSE OF THIS…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Child Development, Child Rearing
New York Univ., NY. Inst. for Developmental Studies. – 1971
Findings based on extended analyses of cognitive, familial, personality, and social-behavioral data from two previous research investigations are presented. Data for the main study, i.e., the present study, was collected principally by means of interviews. Findings of the principal study include the following: (1) Parental figures living in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adults, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research