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Object Exploration Is Facilitated by the Physical and Social Environment in Center-Based Child Care
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Ine H. van Liempd; Ora Oudgenoeg-Paz; Paul P. M. Leseman – Child Development, 2025
Object exploration is considered a driver of motor, cognitive, and social development. However, little is known about how early childhood education and care settings facilitate object exploration. This study examined if children's exploration of objects during free play was facilitated by the use of particular spatial components (floor, tables,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Toddlers, Preschool Children, Object Manipulation
Infants' Hand Preference in a Task Involving Complementary Roles for the Two Hands.
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Ramsay, Douglas S.; Weber, Sherry Lee – Child Development, 1986
Tested infants in their second year with a box task to determine whether they would show a hand preference in solutions involving complete differentiation of roles for the two hands. (HOD)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Infants
Object Manipulation and Exploration in Two- to Five-Month-Old Infants.
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Rochat, Philippe – Developmental Psychology, 1989
Studied the early development of exploratory behavior in 99 infants of 2-5 months. Results show that there are significant changes in spontaneous multimodal exploration of a novel object between 2 and 5 months. (RJC)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Development, Exploratory Behavior, Infant Behavior
The Ability to Negotiate the Environment: An Aspect of Infant Competence as Related to Quality of Attachment.
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Cassidy, Jude – Child Development, 1986
Explores the relation between the infant's ability to negotiate the environment and the quality of the infant-mother attachment relationship. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Attachment Behavior, Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns
Children's Changing Capacity to Process Information.
Woollacott, Marjorie H. – 1983
An understanding of the stages involved in children's development of sensory motor integration would aid in the creation of instructional strategies in physical education. These strategies would optimize both the child's physical coordination and creative development by increasing the correlation between the demands of a learning environment and…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Development, Developmental Stages, Early Experience