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Download full textEddowes, E. Anne; Aldridge, Jerry – 1993
Children who may appear to have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder may actually be "activity hyper" because they are asked to attend to tasks or activities inappropriate for their age or circumstances. Such preschoolers exhibit overactivity or distractibility due to a number of ecological variables such as a problem with classroom…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Attention Deficit Disorders, Behavior Development, Classroom Environment
White, Burton L. – 1969
Four papers discuss the Harvard Preschool Project whose goal is to learn how to structure the experiences of the first six years of life to encourage maximal development of human competence. To determine what competence at age 6 is, a group of 13 highly competent 6-year-olds of mixed residence, class, and ethnicity were compared to a like group of…
Descriptors: Ability, Ability Identification, Behavior Development, Behavioral Science Research
Berk, Laura E. – 1971
This study is concerned with the way in which children's naturally occurring behaviors change over a period of time as they adapt to a nursery school setting. A set of seven varieties of environmental constraints and fourteen adaptations to these constraints was observed among 18 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds in a nursery school classroom first in the…
Descriptors: Adaptation Level Theory, Adjustment (to Environment), Analysis of Variance, Behavior Change
