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Peer reviewedYang, Raymond K.; Moss, Howard A. – Developmental Psychology, 1978
Ninety-two clinically normal infants (48 male, 44 female) were tested at 2 and 90 days of age to examine the continuity of newborn behavior through early infancy across a broad range of behaviors. (MP)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Factor Analysis, Infant Behavior, Infants
Bronson, Gordon W. – Develop Psychol, 1970
Longitudinal data concerning fear responses in 30 boys and 30 girls observed from ages one month to 8 1/2 years suggest that in males--but not in females--a predisposition to a particular level of fearfulness is set by events that occurred before 6 months of age. (Author/MG)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Infant Behavior
Peer reviewedKagan, Jerome – School Review, 1972
Deals with biologically based sex differences in early childhood. Strategy is to assume that the earlier a particular behavioral difference appears in the life cycle, the more likely it is influenced by biological factors. Such biological influences may lead to differences in fear, cognitive functioning and variability between boys and girls.…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Biological Influences, Cognitive Development, Early Experience
Download full textStedman, Donald J. – 1967
This interim report is part of a longitudinal study of developmental behavior designed to determine whether infants from culturally disadvantaged homes have different developmental patterns than infants from advantaged homes. Twenty six culturally disadvantaged infants were individually evaluated on the Bayley Scale of Infant Mental and Motor…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Development, Cognitive Development, Disadvantaged
Allhusen, 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
Lewis, Michael; And Others – 1967
Fixation time, smiling, vocalization, and fret/cry were recorded to obtain a complete picture of infants' responses to facial stimuli over the first year of life. Four stimuli were presented to 120 infants. Results of fixation data indicate that (1) there is a marked decrease in fixation toward facial stimuli within the first year, (2) at all ages…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Eye Fixations
Lewis, Michael, Ed.; Rosenblum, Leonard A., Ed. – 1974
This book, the first in a series on development and behavior of human infants and animals, contains a collection of articles dealing with the significance of the interaction between mother and infant and the subtle contributions that each makes to the other in shaping their ongoing dyadic behavior. It emphasizes that the infant is no mere passive…
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research
