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McClennen, Sandra – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1988
Strategies useful in teaching moderately and severely retarded students appropriate sexual behaviors include showing respect for privacy; asking permission before touching a student; teaching appropriate social interaction; and providing sex education concerning anatomy, physiology, sexual feelings, public and private behavior, expressing…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Interaction, Moderate Mental Retardation

Pellegrini, A. D.; Perlmutter, Jane C. – Young Children, 1988
Discusses rough-and-tumble (R&T) play and misconceptions about its role in the development of young children. Contrasts R&T with aggressive behaviors. Discusses the educational benefits of R&T and offers recommendations for incorporating it into young children's curricula. (Author/RWB)
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Development, Cognitive Development, Elementary Education

Heckhausen, Jutta – Developmental Psychology, 1987
Adopts a longitudinal design to track mother-child developmental change in infant task-related mastery and concomitant maternal behavior. Finds that, as infants gain more mastery across time, mothers gradually withdraw support in terms of concrete, specific and nonverbal means of instruction. Results support a one-step-ahead model for maternal…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Development, Developmental Stages, Infant Behavior

Serbin, Lisa A.; Sprafkin, Carol – Child Development, 1986
Describes two measures of gender salience, one assessing the use of the gender dimension in classifying new information and the other assessing its use in making affiliation choices. The developmental course of gender salience from age three to age seven and the relation between salience and sex-role development were examined. (HOD)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Childhood Attitudes, Cognitive Development

Snyder, James; Patterson, Gerald R. – Child Development, 1986
Identifies reliable mother action-child reaction patterns and assesses the effect of maternal consequences for those patterns on the probability of their subsequent occurrence. (HOD)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Compliance (Psychology), Mothers

Reznick, J. Steven; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Observed a group of 46 children classified at 20 months as either behaviorally inhibited or uninhibited, and 18 children who were classified aa falling at neither extreme at 5.5 years of age, in contexts designed to evaluate behavior in social situations and heart rate, heart variability, and pupillary dilation to cognitive tasks. (HOD)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis

Weininger, Otto – International Journal of Early Childhood, 1986
Through examples of both a child's imagination and pretend play activities, demonstrates how a child's imagination is the thinking function that sets the stage for play, while actual play consists of a child's understanding and representation of reality. (HOD)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes

Brown, Bernard – Children Today, 1986
Describes components of self-reliance and discusses three methods that can be used effectively to make children more self-reliant: behavioral patterning, expectation, and modeling. (HOD)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Responsibility, Children, Individual Development

Zivin, Gail – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1986
Seventeen processes in the development of expressive behavior are reviewed and coordinated in a framework that is shown to accommodate current perspectives on expressive behavior development. Works of Ekman, Izard, Lewis and Michalson, and Sroufe are briefly reviewed. Neglected areas of research are indicated and the course of expressive behavior…
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Behavior, Behavior Development, Children

Rebok, George W.; Hoyer, William J. – Gerontologist, 1977
Combining behavior analysis and behavioral ecology principles is considered in regard to gerontological research and application. For the behavior analyst, the basic unit of understanding is the person's behavior in its functional context. Issues related to extending this level of analysis are discussed from a behavioral ecological perspective.…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Ecological Factors, Gerontology

Muuss, Rolf E. – Adolescence, 1976
Kohlberg, inspired by Piaget's cognitive developmental approach to moral development, expands the structural cognitive approach through more systematic longitudinal, cross-cultural, social class, and educational research. (Author)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes

MacDonald, A. P., Jr.; And Others – Journal of Rehabilitation, 1972
The perception of self-determination (internal control orientation) as a counseling technique for client motivation in rehabilitation programs. (AG)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Development, Behavior Modification, Behavior Theories

Patterson, Gerald R. – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 1973
This report summarizes the evolution of family intervention procedures and considers some of the primary assumptions made within the social learning framework about the determinants of agression and the determinants of behavior change within the family system. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Change, Behavior Development, Home Management

Murphy, F. – British Journal Of Educational Studies, 1973
The purpose of this paper is to review Professor Peters' notion of education as initiation' and to suggest that it involves a paradox of freedom for both teachers and pupils. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Curriculum Development

Brazelton, T. B. – Human Development, 1972
From a symposium on Cross-Cultural Studies of Mother-Infant Interaction at the Biennial Meeting for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, Minn., April 2, 1971. (MB)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Development, Child Rearing, Cross Cultural Studies