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How Young Children Explore, Follow and Impose Rules during Object-Oriented Play: A Multiple Case Study
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Wynberg, Elizabeth R.; van der Wilt, Femke; Boland, Annerieke; Raijmakers, Maartje E. J.; van der Veen, Chiel – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2022
In early childhood, young children frequently engage in object-oriented play. According to cultural-historical activity theory, object-oriented play provides children with opportunities to learn about the characteristics and cultural applications of objects and materials. These characteristics are referred to as rules or affordances of objects and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Play, Child Development, Learning Processes
The End-State Comfort Effect in Young Children
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Adalbjornsson, Carola F.; Fischman, Mark G.; Rudisill, Mary E. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2008
The end-state comfort effect has been observed in recent studies of grip selection in adults. The present study investigated whether young children also exhibit sensitivity to end-state comfort. The task was to pick up an overturned cup from a table, turn the cup right side up, and pour water into it. Two age groups (N = 20 per group) were…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Kindergarten, Age Differences, Comparative Analysis
The Search for Structural Principles in Children's Manipulative Play: A Parallel with Linguistic Development
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Goodson, Barbara Dillon; Greenfield, Patricia Marks – Child Development, 1975
Examines the manipulative strategies of 2- to 6-year-olds in terms of three structural principles--hierarchical complexity, interruption and role change--which are formally parallel to dimensions of language structure. Paper includes an extensive discussion of related studies. (JMB)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Language Patterns, Object Manipulation, Play
The Effects of Novelty on the Young Child's Exploration of Objects.
Butler, Katie Best – 1977
This study investigated the effects of novelty on young children's exploration of commonplace, 3-dimensional objects. The exploration of novel and familiar objects was compared and the pattern of the exploration of the novel object over a period of time was examined in order to test two hypotheses: (1) that novel objects elicit more exploration…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Data Analysis, Day Care, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
The Effect of Peer Age on the Social Behavior of Preschool Children
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Langlois, Judith H.; And Others – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1978
Presents a study of social- and object-directed behaviors of preschool children in same or mixed age dyads. Subjects were three- and five-year-oldpreschool children. (BD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Age Groups, Behavior Patterns, Object Manipulation
DEVELOPMENTAL CHANGES IN CATEGORIZING BEHAVIOR FROM INFANCY TO THE EARLY PRESCHOOL YEARS.
JOHNSON, LINDA J.; RICCIUTI, HENRY D. – 1965
A MAIN PROBLEM ARISING IN THE STUDY OF CATEGORIZING BEHAVIOR IN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN BY MEANS OF SORTING PROCEDURES WAS THAT PERFORMANCE APPEARED TO BE VERY MUCH A FUNCTION OF THE CHILD'S COMPREHENSION OF THE PARTICULAR VERBAL INSTRUCTIONS EMPLOYED BY THE EXPERIMENTER IN PRESENTING THE TASK. THE SPECIFIC AIMS OF THE FIRST STUDY WERE TO INVESTIGATE…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Classification, Developmental Tasks