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The Environmental Mystique: Training the Intellect Versus Development of the Child
Zigler, Edward – Childhood Educ, 1970
Analyzes selected research on emotional and motivational development. Cites some excesses associated with popular stress on cognitive growth; discusses some not-so-easily measurable areas of affective behavior. This paper is a modified version of a paper presented to the American Education Research Association, 1969. (DR)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Environmental Influences
Parent Education in the 1970s: Policy, Panacea, or Pragmatism.
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Harmon, Carolyn; Zigler, Edward – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1980
Reviews Schlossman's characterization of the parent education "policy" of the former Office of Child Development (OCD) in order to clarify the record of OCD's actions. Suggests how public efforts can assist contemporary parents in the task of rearing children in an increasingly complex society. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Government Role, Motivation, Parent Education
Motivational Factors in the Performance of Economically Disadvantaged Children on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test
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Zigler, Edward; And Others – Child Development, 1973
Most striking finding was the mean 10-point IQ incn programs which utilize the discovery of such IQ increases as evidence development
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Intelligence Quotient, Intelligence Tests
Institutionalization and the Effectiveness of Social Reinforcement: A Five- and Eight-Year Follow-up Study
Zigler, Edward; And Others – Develop Psychol, 1970
Descriptors: Followup Studies, Institutional Role, Institutionalized Persons, Mental Retardation
Developmental Course of Responsiveness to Social Reinforcement in Normal Children and Institutionalized Retarded Children
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Zigler, Edward; Balla, David – Developmental Psychology, 1972
Implications of the findings for the programming of institutions for the retarded are discussed. (Authors)
Descriptors: Child Development, Data Analysis, Developmental Psychology, Handicapped Children
Preinstitutional Social Deprivation and IQ Changes among Institutionalized Retarded Children
Butterfield, Earl C.; Zigler, Edward – J Abnorm Psychol, 1970
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Family Characteristics, Handicapped Children, Hypothesis Testing
Developmental versus Difference Theories of Mental Retardation and the Problem of Motivation
Zigler, Edward – Amer J Ment Deficiency, 1969
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Environmental Influences
Training the Intellect Versus Development of the Child.
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Zigler, Edward – 1968
In a speech before the American Educational Research Association, the author asserts that childhood education theory is going through one of its periodic over-reactions to new findings. The result is the present overemphasis on environmentally caused cognitive development. Yet a very basic biological law is the law of human variability. The…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Disadvantaged, Early Childhood Education
Assessing Personality Traits of Individuals with Mental Retardation.
Zigler, Edward; Bennett-Gates, Dianne; Hodapp, Robert; Henrich, Christopher C. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2002
Analysis of data from 661 students with cultural-familial mental retardation yielded a 37-item, 7-scale personality instrument that confirmed five hypothesized factors of Positive Reaction Tendency, Negative Reaction Tendency, Effectance Motivator, Expectancy of Success, and Outerdirectedness and identified two additional factors of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Creativity, Emotional Response