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Peer reviewedHughes, Miranda – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1978
Examines the sequential patterns of behavior which are characteristic of the preschool child's exploration and play in response to a novel stimulus. (BD)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Play, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedLongo, Josephine; And Others – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
In two sessions, the duration and tempo of toy play of infants and reaction of frustration were measured. Correlations indicated a general relationship between response persistence during play and attempts to escape frustrating situations. (Author/CM)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Infant Behavior, Infants, Persistence
Greer, R. Douglas; And Others – Analysis and Intervention in Developmental Disabilities, 1985
Two experiments were performed with five severely developmentally disabled individuals (13-26 years old) to test the relationship between toys as conditioned reinforcers and stereotypy. Findings suggested that conditioning reinforcers for play, such as toys, may result in a durable and possibly more cost effective procedure of dealing with…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Developmental Disabilities, Play, Responses
Peer reviewedBenenson, Joyce F.; Del Bianco, Rejeanne – Canadian Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education, 1997
Two studies documented gender differences in preschool children's responses to situations of vulnerability. Children playing with same sex friends showed no sex differences in time responding to vulnerability; some sex differences were noted in response type. Children's preferences for vignettes representing categories of response to the same…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Interpersonal Relationship, Peer Relationship
Dickinson, John – 1976
This book explores some of the basic principles of behavior which have been derived from the study of operant conditioning and considers the phenomenon of sport in society in the light of these principles. First, some of the terms used in Skinnerian behavioral analysis are defined and explained. The second section examines the reinforcements…
Descriptors: Athletics, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Theories
Download full textRuble, Lisa Ann – 1997
A study involving eight boys with autism and eight boys with Down syndrome (ages 6-10) with similar adaptive behavior levels used an ecological approach to study the in-depth structure of the behavior stream. Narrative records were collected and analyzed based on duration and frequency of behaviors. Each record was analyzed by marking the behavior…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Autism, Behavior Patterns, Child Behavior
Strong, Emily; Vallery, Arlee
Tests of conditionability in infants were used in a longidudinal study of 32 subjects in the first year of life. The research was based on Eysenck's hypothesis that conditionability i s a unitary factor related to introversion-extroversion and attention span. The objective of the investigators was to devise a battery of conditioning tasks…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Development, Conditioning
