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Direct linkGanea, Patricia A.; Saylor, Megan M. – Child Development, 2007
Do infants use past linguistic information to interpret an ambiguous request for an object? When infants in this research were shown 2 objects, and asked for 1 with an indefinite request (e.g., "Can you get it for me?"), both 15- and 18-month-olds used the speaker's previous reference to an absent object to interpret the request. The 18-month-olds…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Infants, Interpretive Skills, Figurative Language
Repacholi, Betty M.; Meltzoff, Andrew N. – Child Development, 2007
Two experiments examined whether 18-month-olds learn from emotions directed to a third party. Infants watched an adult perform actions on objects, and an Emoter expressed Anger or Neutral affect toward the adult in response to her actions. The Emoter then became neutral and infants were given access to the objects. Infants' actions were influenced…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Psychological Patterns, Affective Behavior
Picard, Delphine; Vinter, Annie – Child Development, 2007
The present experiments were aimed at testing Karmiloff-Smith's (1992) assumption that representational flexibility in drawing behavior requires the relaxation of a sequential constraint. A total of two hundred and forty 5- to 9-year-old children produced cross-category drawings (e.g., a house with wings) in 4 conditions. The results indicated…
Descriptors: Freehand Drawing, Children, Child Development, Sequential Approach
Early, Diane M.; Maxwell, Kelly L.; Burchinal, Margaret; Alva, Soumya; Bender, Randall H.; Bryant, Donna; Cai, Karen; Clifford, Richard M.; Ebanks, Caroline; Griffin, James A.; Henry, Gary T.; Howes, Carollee; Iriondo-Perez, Jeniffer; Jeon, Hyun-Joo; Mashburn, Andrew J.; Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen; Pianta, Robert C.; Vandergrift, Nathan; Zill, Nicholas – Child Development, 2007
In an effort to provide high-quality preschool education, policymakers are increasingly requiring public preschool teachers to have at least a Bachelor's degree, preferably in early childhood education. Seven major studies of early care and education were used to predict classroom quality and children's academic outcomes from the educational…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Preschool Education, Young Children, Educational Quality
Ackerman, Brian P.; Izard, Carroll E.; Kobak, Roger; Brown, Eleanor D.; Smith, Clare – Child Development, 2007
This longitudinal study of 105 economically disadvantaged children examined the relation between reading problems and internalizing behavior in 3rd- and 5th-grade assessments (8- to 12-year olds). The variable-centered results showed that reading problems predicted change in internalizing behavior in the context of child and family predictors. The…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Grade 5, Grade 3, Disadvantaged Youth
van IJzendoorn, Marinus H.; Rutgers, Anna H.; Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian J.; Swinkels, Sophie H. N.; van Daalen, Emma; Dietz, Claudine; Naber, Fabienne B. A.; Buitelaar, Jan K.; van Engeland, Herman – Child Development, 2007
This study on sensitivity and attachment included 55 toddlers and their parents. Samples included children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), mental retardation, language delay, and typical development. Children were diagnosed at 4 years of age. Two years before diagnosis, attachment was assessed with the Strange Situation procedure, and…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Play, Mental Retardation, Delayed Speech
Perkins, Serena A.; Turiel, Elliot – Child Development, 2007
This research examined adolescents' judgments about lying to circumvent directives from parents or friends in the moral, personal, and prudential domains. One hundred and twenty-eight adolescents (12.1-17.3 years) were presented with situations in which an adolescent avoids a directive through deception. The majority of adolescents judged some…
Descriptors: Deception, Adolescents, Moral Values, Social Values
Milligan, Karen; Astington, Janet Wilde; Dack, Lisa Ain – Child Development, 2007
Numerous studies show that children's language ability is related to false-belief understanding. However, there is considerable variation in the size of the correlation reported. Using data from 104 studies (N=8,891), this meta-analysis determines the strength of the relation in children under age 7 and examines moderators that may account for the…
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Cognitive Development, Meta Analysis, Child Language
Blair, Clancy; Razza, Rachel Peters – Child Development, 2007
This study examined the role of self-regulation in emerging academic ability in one hundred and forty-one 3- to 5-year-old children from low-income homes. Measures of effortful control, false belief understanding, and the inhibitory control and attention-shifting aspects of executive function in preschool were related to measures of math and…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Academic Ability, Reading Ability, Inhibition
Garciaguirre, Jessie S.; Adolph, Karen E.; Shrout, Patrick E. – Child Development, 2007
Maintaining balance is a central problem for new walkers. To examine how infants cope with the additional balance control problems induced by load carriage, 14-month-olds were loaded with 15% of their body weight in shoulder-packs. Both symmetrical and asymmetrical loads disrupted alternating gait patterns and caused less mature footfall patterns.…
Descriptors: Infants, Physical Activities, Body Weight, Psychomotor Skills
Belsky, Jay; Vandell, Deborah Lowe; Burchinal, Margaret; Clarke-Stewart, K. Alison; McCartney, Kathleen; Owen, Margaret Tresch – Child Development, 2007
Effects of early child care on children's functioning from 4 1/2 years through the end of 6th grade (M age=12.0 years) were examined in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (n=1,364). The results indicated that although parenting was a stronger and more consistent predictor of…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality
Swensen, Lauren D.; Kelley, Elizabeth; Fein, Deborah; Naigles, Letitia R. – Child Development, 2007
Two language acquisition processes (comprehension preceding production of word order, the noun bias) were examined in 2- and 3-year-old children (n=10) with autistic spectrum disorder and in typically developing 21-month-olds (n=13). Intermodal preferential looking was used to assess comprehension of subject-verb-object word order and the tendency…
Descriptors: Word Order, Speech, Nouns, Autism
Mclaughlin, Andrea E.; Campbell, Frances A.; Pungello, Elizabeth P.; Skinner, Martie – Child Development, 2007
The relationship between depressive symptoms in young adults, the quality of the early home environment, and early educational child care was investigated in young adults randomly assigned to receive early childhood intervention in the Abecedarian study. Of the original 111 infants enrolled (98 percent African American), 104 participated in an…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Young Adults, Control Groups, Children
Buehler, Cheryl; Lange, Garrett; Franck, Karen L. – Child Development, 2007
Early adolescents' (11-14 years) responses to marital hostility were examined in a sample of 416 families. The cognitive-contextual perspective and emotional security hypothesis guided the study and 9 adolescent responses were identified. Prospective associations were examined in several structural equation models that included adolescent problems…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Psychological Needs, Adolescents, Structural Equation Models
Gelman, Susan A.; Heyman, Gail D.; Legare, Cristine H. – Child Development, 2007
Essentialism is the belief that certain characteristics (of individuals or categories) may be relatively stable, unchanging, likely to be present at birth, and biologically based. The current studies examined how different essentialist beliefs interrelate. For example, does thinking that a property is innate imply that the property cannot be…
Descriptors: Adults, Rhetoric, Psychological Characteristics, Social Characteristics
