In this study, changes in infant's attention to novel on familiar stimuli in novel and familiar environments as a function of age were examined. By 8 weeks, males fixated a novel stabile more if in a familiar environment while females fixated the novel stabile more if in a novel environment. (Author/WY)

Constant instrusians upon the play activities of young children may set up emotional tensions and/or scrambled expectancies that interfere significantly with subsequent play persistence. (Author)

The capability of young high ability children to cope with extraneous distractive stimuli during performance on a two-choice discrimination task was investigated. Results indicate that existing interpretations of the development of attentive abilities in children based on the notion of an increasing attention span are in need of elaboration or…

A way of thinking about the child's stimulus effects is advanced and applied to parent-child interactions observed in home settings. (Author/WY)

This brief report describes harmonious parents and their children. The six preschool daughters whose parents were harmonious were outstandingly competent but the opposite was true of the two sons. (Author/WY)