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Peer reviewedVandell, Deborah Lowe; And Others – Child Development, 1980
Three questions are addressed: (1) Are infants as young as six months capable of interacting with a peer? (2) What type of social acts are used during these early encounters? and (3) Do toys facilitate the interactions? (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Infant Behavior, Infants, Interaction Process Analysis, Longitudinal Studies
Cohen, Neil L.; Faust-Cohen, Lynn – 1978
This paper briefly reviews studies of infant-peer and infant-mother interaction, and describes a study which compares the effects of mothers and peers on toddler play. Twenty-six toddlers (13 males and 13 females) aged 21 to 24 months were observed in two social situations each: playing with his/her mother, and playing with a familiar peer (after…
Descriptors: Infant Behavior, Infants, Interaction Process Analysis, Literature Reviews
Peer reviewedMoore, Shirley G. – Young Children, 1978
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Early Childhood Education, Infant Behavior, Infants
Weininger, O.; Moll, M. J. – 1977
This study was designed to identify aggressive actions in 12-, 18-, and 24-month-old infants and to investigate what type of responses these actions elicit in peers. Nine infants were observed and videotaped in interaction with each other and with toys. The focus was on four 18-month-olds observed in two sessions, one with an older child, the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aggression, Infant Behavior, Infants
Peer reviewedRubenstein, Judith L.; Howes, Carollee – Developmental Psychology, 1979
Social interaction and play behavior were compared in community-based infant day care and at home for two matched groups of 18-month-old infants. Adult-infant, infant-peer, and infant-toy interaction were time-sampled. (Author/SS)
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Comparative Analysis, Day Care Centers, Family Environment
Vandell, Deborah Lowe; Mueller, Edward C. – 1978
In a study to assess young children's social interaction with peers, six male toddlers who were the only participants in a playgroup were observed in two situations: (1) a GROUP situation in which at least four of the boys were present and (2) a DYAD situation in which only two boys were present. Both types of observations were made at 16, 19, and…
Descriptors: Group Behavior, Group Structure, Individual Differences, Infant Behavior
Webb, Roger A., Ed. – 1977
This book is a collection of six theoretical and practice oriented papers on issues related to the problems of intervention in the social development of young children. Topics dealt with in the papers are: mother-child interaction in day care and home reared children; the history, function and sequelae of a form of reunion behavior following…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Rearing, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
Download full textBrooks, Jeanne – 1974
This paper presents two studies of the development of social competencies in infancy. In the first experiment, the central issue investigated was whether facial configuration or height is utilized by infants to respond differentially to children and adults. Five different strangers, a male and a female child, a male and a female adult, and a small…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Body Height, Children
