This report, prepared as part of the Project in Television and Early Childhood Education at the University of Southern California, contains a review of landmark and current literature on parent-child interaction (PCI). Major theoretical assumptions, research procedures and findings are analyzed in order to develop a model of parent-child interaction strategies as a means of increasing socialization and cognitive development in young children to provide guidelines for the use of this model with home television viewing. Project plans call for the use of a parent-child interaction model to enhance learning gains from commercial television viewing. The report is organized into three divisions: (1) theoretical background and purposes underlying PCI models; (2) research procedures used in the studies reviewed; and (3) significant findings of current studies. Implications of these studies to proposed research at USC are discussed. (MS)