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Becoming Aware of One's Competence in the Second Year: Developmental Progression Within the Mother-Child Dyad.
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Heckhausen, Jutta – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1988
Task-centered interactions of 12 mother-infant pairs observed between the infants' 14th and 22nd month indicated that infants become aware of their competence in their second year. Five critical aspects of the children's behavior are discussed with respect to mother's influence, action as context for competence, and developmental characteristics…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Competence, Foreign Countries, Individual Development
Infants of Depressed and Nondepressed Mothers Exhibit Differences in Frontal Brain Electrical Activity during the Expression of Negative Emotions.
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Dawson, Geraldine; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1997
Examined electrical brain activity during negative and positive emotion expression in infants of depressed and nondepressed mothers. Found that, compared with infants of nondepressed mothers, infants of depressed mothers exhibited increased EEG activation in the frontal but not parietal region when expressing negative emotions. There were no…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Child Development, Comparative Analysis, Depression (Psychology)
Attachment and Emotion in Autobiographical Memory Development.
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Farrar, M. Jeffrey; Welch-Ross, Melissa K.; Fasig, Lauren G. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1997
Assessed the relationship of attachment status to autobiographical memory in preschoolers. Found that mother-child dyads with insecurely attached daughters engaged in relatively more negative memory talk than those with securely attached daughters. Secure-daughter dyads elaborated more on emotional themes than insecure-daughter dyads. Relations…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Children, Emotional Experience
Self-Regulation and Emotion in Infancy.
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Rothbart, Mary K.; And Others – New Directions for Child Development, 1992
Infants' orienting of attention undergoes marked development in the first six months of life. Changes in attentional control appear to be related to infants' susceptibility to distress. (Author)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Attachment Behavior, Attention Control
Research and Clinical Center for Child Development Annual Report, 1986-1987. No. 10.
Miyake, Kazuo, Ed.; Chen, Shing-jen, Ed. – 1988
Provided in this annual report, the 10th of a series, are the texts of four papers presented at a preconference workshop on new directions for infancy research. The papers focus on the middle European contribution to infancy research, main themes in European research on infant perception and cognition, an innovative therapeutic approach to…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Cognitive Development, Foreign Countries
Parents' Attributions for Their Children's Behavior.
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Miller, Scott A. – Child Development, 1995
Reviews research on the determinants and the effects of parents' attributions. The evidence suggests that parents do form attributions for their children's behavior; these attributions vary in predictable ways across judges (mothers versus fathers), targets (age or sex of child), and behavior outcomes (positive or negative); and attributions…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Antisocial Behavior, Attribution Theory
What's in a Smile?
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Messinger, Daniel S.; Fogel, Alan; Dickson, K. Laurie – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Compared Duchenne and non-Duchenne smiles of 1- to 6-month olds during weekly videotapes of mother/infant interaction for clues regarding emotional significance. Correlated levels of Duchenne and non-Duchenne smiling within sessions; found that they had similar developmental trajectories. Duchenne smiles were typically preceded by non-Duchenne…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Child Development, Comparative Analysis