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Doing Developmental Research: A Practical Guide
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Striano, Tricia – Guilford Press, 2016
Addressing practical issues rarely covered in methods texts, this user-friendly, jargon-free book helps students and beginning researchers plan infant and child development studies and get them done. The author provides step-by-step guidance for getting involved in a developmental laboratory and crafting effective research questions and proposals.…
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Children, Infants
Parents' Causal Talk: Links to Children's Causal Stance and Emerging Scientific Literacy
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Booth, Amy E.; Shavlik, Margaret; Haden, Catherine A. – Developmental Psychology, 2020
To explore the potential contribution of parents' causal talk to preschooler's emerging scientific literacy and related interests, we observed 153 parent-child dyads playing together in a museum and in the lab. As in previous work, the frequency with which parents referenced causal information in their speech predicted the strength of their…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Scientific Literacy, Child Development, Cognitive Development
Executive Control and Dimensions of Problem Behaviors in Preschool Children
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Espy, Kimberly Andrews; Sheffield, Tiffany D.; Wiebe, Sandra A.; Clark, Caron A. C.; Moehr, Matthew J. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2011
Background: Despite the widespread recognition of the importance of executive control (EC) in externalizing psychopathology, the relation between EC and problem behavior has not been well characterized, particularly in typically developing preschoolers. Method: Using the sample, battery of laboratory tasks, and latent variable modeling methods…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Preschool Children, Psychopathology, Laboratories
Sustained Attention and Age Predict Inhibitory Control during Early Childhood
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Reck, Sarah G.; Hund, Alycia M. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2011
Executive functioning skills develop rapidly during early childhood. Recent research has focused on specifying this development, particularly predictors of executive functioning skills. Here we focus on sustained attention as a predictor of inhibitory control, one key executive functioning component. Although sustained attention and inhibitory…
Descriptors: Inhibition, Young Children, Attention Control, Prediction
Developmental Changes in Visual and Auditory Inhibition in Early Childhood
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Guy, Jacalyn; Rogers, Maria; Cornish, Kim – Infant and Child Development, 2012
The development of executive functions in the preschool years is not fully understood. Although there exists a large body of research investigating the maturation of executive functioning in school-aged children, little is known about the emergence of such skills, in particular inhibition, among preschool-aged children. Understanding developmental…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Inhibition, Visual Perception, Auditory Perception
The Relationships Between Mothers, Fathers, Infants, and Siblings in the First Two Years of Life.
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Lamb, Michael E. – 1977
This paper discusses the nature of the infant social world. Infants develop attachments to both parents. Father-child and mother-child relationships are qualitatively different. They involve different types of experiences and have different implications for the child's personality development. The fathers' sex-differentiating behavior focuses the…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Infant Behavior