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Parent Discipline Practices in an International Sample: Associations with Child Behaviors and Moderation by Perceived Normativeness
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Gershoff, Elizabeth T.; Grogan-Kaylor, Andrew; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Chang, Lei; Zelli, Arnaldo; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Dodge, Kenneth A. – Child Development, 2010
This study examined the associations of 11 discipline techniques with children's aggressive and anxious behaviors in an international sample of mothers and children from 6 countries and determined whether any significant associations were moderated by mothers' and children's perceived normativeness of the techniques. Participants included 292…
Descriptors: Discipline, Mothers, Foreign Countries, Timeout
Experience and Brain Development.
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Greenough, William T.; And Others – Child Development, 1987
The role of experience in the developing brain is considered. A categorization scheme based upon the type of information stored and the brain mechanisms involved in storing the information is proposed. Experience-expectant and experience-dependent information storage are differentiated. (BN)
Descriptors: Encoding (Psychology), Literature Reviews, Models, Neurological Organization
Organization, Observation, and Guided Practice in Concept Attainment and Generalization
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Rosenthal, Ted L.; Zimmerman, Barry J. – Child Development, 1973
Degree of organization in presenting stimuli, and training through modeling versus guided practice, were studied on a dial-reading concept using 144 third or fifth graders. (ST)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Elementary School Students, Generalization
Relations between Brain and Cognitive Development.
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Fischer, Kurt W. – Child Development, 1987
The developmental pattern of concurrent synaptogenesis in rhesus monkeys is consistent with a straightforward model of relations between brain and cognitive development. Concurrent synaptogenesis is hypothesized to lay the primary cortical foundation for a series of developmental levels in middle infancy that have been empirically documented in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Infants, Literature Reviews, Models
Functional Measurement of Children's Judgments
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Butzin, Clifford A.; Anderson, Norman H. – Child Development, 1973
Suggests that the information integration processes used by adults to form judgments are also used by children. (ST)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Childhood Attitudes, Cognitive Development, Elementary School Students