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A Naturalistic Home Observational Approach to Children's Language, Cognition, and Behavior
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D'Apice, Katrina; Latham, Rachel M.; von Stumm, Sophie – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Although early life experiences of language and parenting are critical for children's development, large home observation studies of both domains are scarce in the psychological literature, presumably because of their considerable costs to the participants and researchers. Here, we used digital audio-recorders to unobtrusively observe 107…
Descriptors: Naturalistic Observation, Child Language, Child Behavior, Child Rearing
Three-Year Trajectories of Parenting Behaviors among Physically Abusive Parents and Their Link to Child Adjustment
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Okado, Yuko; Haskett, Mary E. – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2015
Background: There is limited knowledge about how positive and negative parenting practices differ across individuals and change over time in parents with substantiated physical abuse history, and how trajectories of these parenting practices affect child adjustment. Objective: The present study examined latent trajectories of positive and negative…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Parenting Styles, Parent Child Relationship, Preschool Children
Nature's Call and Experiential Nonlinearities
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Miller, David B. – European Journal of Developmental Science, 2007
Gilbert Gottlieb was an elegant experimentalist whose research was inspired in part by naturalistic observations of parent-offspring vocal-auditory interactions of waterfowl. Such observations are essential in identifying potential linear (obvious) as well as nonlinear (subtle) mechanisms underlying the development of species-typical behavior. His…
Descriptors: Naturalistic Observation, Behavior Development, Genetics, Animals
Doing What Comes Naturally: The Role of Self Generated Experience in Behavioral Development
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Michel, George F. – European Journal of Developmental Science, 2007
Gottlieb used naturalistic observations of normally occurring events in the life history of individuals for the purpose of discovering the role of experience in the development of species-typical behaviors. His research revealed the impact of self-generated experiences (particularly those experiences that were self-stimulated) in the establishment…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Naturalistic Observation, Individual Development, Experience
Infants' Social Behavior in a Naturalistic vs. Experimental Setting.
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Dragsten, Susan S.; Lee, Lee C.
The effects of the familiarity of setting and partner on the social behavior of infants was studied. Subjects were 22 infants 6-18 months old. Eleven of the infants were in a day care center; the remainder were cared for at home. In the first portion of the study, the day care infants were observed interacting with each other in the nursery…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Development, Day Care, Infants
Reconnecting with Nature.
Cohen, Michael J.; And Others – 1995
Earth and its people are at risk. This book empowers anyone to personally deal with being at risk, with destructive personal stress, and environmental trauma. It shows how to let nature place its wisdom into one's thinking and overcome society's separation from nature. It lets nature itself teach us how it works and how to participate in its…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Conservation Education, Conservation (Environment), Ecology