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Bijou, Sidney W. – 1975
This paper points out the inadequacies of emotional or drive-based theories of exploratory behavior and offers instead a behavior analysis conceptualization. Exploratory behavior as an emotional state was rejected because the environmental conditions said to arouse exploration and the behaviors said to manifest curiosity are too general to…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Child Development, Curiosity, Motivation

Jackson, Dorothy W.; Angelino, Henry R. – Theory Into Practice, 1974
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Theories, Child Development, Cognitive Development