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Beckwith, Leila – Child Development, 1971
The present study explores the specific environmental influences in the intellectual development of 24 adoptive infants living in middle class families. (Author)
Descriptors: Child Development, Data Analysis, Environmental Influences, Infants
Sigel, Irving E. – 1971
This document presents some of the major challenges facing Developmental Psychologists. Research revealed that middle class children tended to respond in classification tasks to objects and pictures as equivalents, whereas low class black children tended not to do so. The reason for this was investigated. This investigation of the course of…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Blacks, Classification, Cognitive Processes
Steward, Margaret S. – 1971
This project was designed to study the process of parents teaching preschool age children using a direct observational method. Six mothers and their own three-year-old sons from seven ethnic groups participated: middle-class Anglo, lower-class Anglo, English-speaking Mexican-American, bilingual Mexican-American; Spanish-Speaking Mexican-American,…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Attitudes, Behavior Patterns, Chinese