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Sex Differences in the Activity Level of Preschool Children as a Possible Precursor of Hyperactivity
Peer reviewedGoggin, James E. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1975
The activity level of preschool boys relative to preschool girls was observed to find whether a sex-linked pattern of hyperactivity is observable in the general population. Boys were found to be more active than girls, with patterns similar to those included in definitions of hyperactivity. (GO)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Problems, Classroom Observation Techniques, Hyperactivity
Peer reviewedPellegrini, Anthony D. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
To investigate the development of preschoolers' social-cognitive play behaviors, ten preschoolers (two, three and four years old) were observed in their classrooms on 15 occasions by a time-sampling schedule. Social-cognitive behavior coding (Parten and Smilansky) indicates that children's play became more social as they grew older. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Development, Classroom Observation Techniques, Cognitive Development
Download full textAllhusen, Virginia D.; Cochran, Moncrieff M. – 1991
The conditions of day care quality under which infants direct secure attachment behaviors toward their day care providers were examined. Two groups of 12- to 18-month-old infants, who were experiencing either 1:4 or 1:7 caregiver-to-infant ratios, and their day care providers, were observed while they interacted in their day care centers.…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Development, Child Caregivers, Childhood Needs
Peer reviewedRoy, Rosanne; Benenson, Joyce F. – Developmental Psychology, 2002
Compared boys' and girls' use of interference competition during game play when resources were scarce or plentiful, among children from kindergarten or fourth grade. Found that fourth-grade girls used less interference competition when resources were plentiful, while their male peers and kindergartners of both sexes used interference competition…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Behavior, Competition, Elementary Education
Selcer, Roberta J.; Hilton, Irma R. – 1970
A study was conducted to investigate whether: (1) children's preferences for activities vary as a function of the cultural stereotypes to which they are exposed; (2) children's perception of appropriate activities for females and males vary as a function of the cultural stereotypes to which they are exposed; and (3) the degree of differences…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Concept Formation, Identification (Psychology), Interviews
Duke Univ., Durham, NC. – 1968
Traditional measures of intelligence frequently yield low scores when applied to disadvantaged subjects. This study tests whether similar findings would result from measures of developmental behavior. Accordingly, the developmental behavior of 159 culturally disadvantaged children (85 boys, 74 girls) was assessed by systematic interviewing of…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Rating Scales, Classroom Observation Techniques, Disadvantaged
Hecht, Michael L.; And Others – 1985
A study was conducted to examine the effects of child abuse and neglect on children's nonverbal behaviors. It was hypothesized that abused and neglected children would be less active nonverbally than would control group children. Eight abused and neglected children, aged one through three years, were videotaped interacting with their caregivers in…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behavior Development, Child Abuse, Child Caregivers
