The link between the quality of attachment in infancy and the quality of play and problem-solving behavior at age two years was examined in 48 infants. (Author/JMB)

The social behavior of 38 preschool children in a village play group was shown to exhibit considerable consistency from one half term to the next, from one term to the next, and between indoor classroom and outdoor playground situations. (Author/JMB)

Describes two experiments which examined the relation between neonatal cry features and obstetric histories. Experiment 1 showed differences in pitch and durational features between the cries of high- and low-complication newborns. Experiment 2 showed differences in the cry ratings of the two groups on dimensions such as aversive, sick, urgent,…

Explored potential sex differences in all activity spontaneously emitted by newborns. Subjects were 14 uncircumcised males and 15 females. The pattern or results indicated that even uncircumcised males may be slightly more irritable than females, and thus more active. (Author/JMB)

Presents the results of studies designed to illustrate the use of child maltreatment report data as social indicators of the quality of life for families. Focuses on the reported incidence of child abuse and neglect at two levels of neighborhood analysis within a single metropolitan county. (Author/JMB)

Interest in babies was studied in 120 young adult males and females belonging to four stages of life: cohabiting singles, childless-married couples, expecting first child, and parents of an infant. Measures included responsivity to an unfamiliar baby, interest in pictures of babies, and a sex-role self-concept inventory. (Author/JMB)

Children aged three to six years were taught a specified route through an environment and were tested on their ability to: (1) travel the route in reverse, (2) name the sequence of landmarks along the reverse route, (3) infer the relationship between parts of the environment not directly traveled between, and (4) construct a model of the…

Examined the likelihood of changes in various parts of children's drawings of people when the children were asked to represent action. (Author/JMB)

Examined the extent to which children draw upon reality and fantasy, either explicitly or implicitly, in their spontaneous classifications, and when instructed to sort on that basis. (Author/JMB)

A group of 60 children from grades K, 1, 3, 4, and 8 were assessed via a battery of Piagetian tasks to determine their stages of cognitive development. They were then asked to interpret a number of metaphors ranging in frequency of occurrence in adult speech from common to rare. (Author/JMB)

Examined the distinction between preschool children's incorrect and opposite interpretations of "less" and investigated the influence of contextual/procedural factors on their comprehension of "less." (Author/JMB)

Reports three studies about young children's knowledge of word structure and its relation to reading. Study I examined children's knowledge of the characteristics of printed words. Study II investigated aspects of word structure used by beginning readers. Study III investigated aspects of word structure used by readers at varying levels of reading…

Examined the relation of language to thought in a cross-sectional study of 24 infants between 12 and 24 months of age. (Author/JMB)