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Chapman, Michael; Zahn-Waxler, Carolyn – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1982
Twenty-four mothers were trained to record emotional incidents involving their toddlers. Reports of disciplinary encounters were analyzed in terms of (1) the types of discipline used and children's responses to that discipline and (2) the relationship between compliance/noncompliance and type of misdeed. Love withdrawal was shown to be a highly…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Problems, Comparative Analysis, Discipline
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Nadel-Brulfert, J.; Baudonniere, P. M. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1982
In order to study spontaneous imitation, 13 triads of familiar peers ages 2 years to 2.11 years were brought together without adult presence in an experimental setting containing three sets of 10 different categories of objects. Analysis of filmed data focused on occasions when two children simultaneously held matching objects. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Imitation, Individual Differences, Infant Behavior
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Tietjen, Anne Marie – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1982
To assess the influence of personal and environmental factors on the composition of children's networks and the relative amounts and use of time spent with people of various ages, sexes, and roles, 72 Swedish children between the ages of 8 and 11 replied to interview questions about their family members, relatives, friends, and the nonrelative…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Environmental Influences
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Lamb, Michael E.; And Others – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1982
To further explore findings indicating that parental gender is a much more important predictor of caretaker behavior style than is involvement in parental role, 45 Swedish couples were observed at home interacting with their 16-month-old infants. Findings suggest that gender differences in parental behavior are much less amenable to social…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Family Life, Fathers, Foreign Countries
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Stevenson, Harold W. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1982
Researchers from 18 different countries as well as representatives of UNICEF and UNESCO attended a conference on international perspectives in child development and social policy. Topics discussed included knowledge and ideology, goals of different social groups, communication problems, and the relationship of research to practice. Bibliographic…
Descriptors: Child Development, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Global Approach
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Azuma, Hiroshi – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1982
Describes growth in the number of studies of behavior development conducted in Japan during the last 20 years and identifies areas of development receiving attention by Japanese researchers. (RH)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Bilingualism, Cognitive Development, Developmental Psychology
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Collins, W.A.; Korac, N. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1982
Points out that advances in research include field experiments and panel studies permitting the use of nonexperimental causal-inference techniques. Notes that the scope of recent research has expanded to include cognitive processing of televised information and other types of effects (e.g., children's concepts of social reality). Suggests…
Descriptors: Children, Literature Reviews, Media Research, Research Methodology
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Murphy, Catherine M.; Wood, David J. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1982
Children from four to eight years of age were asked to construct a three-dimensional toy under one of three conditions: 40 children viewed a filmed demonstration of the procedure, 40 children were provided with a series of photographs depicting critical stages in the construction, and a third group of 30 students acted as controls. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Instructional Films
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Martinsen, Harald – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1982
Twenty-nine child/caregiver pairs were observed in a public park without adults' knowledge. Interdependence of children's exploration and ability to walk, effect of age on frequency and length of explorations, and time spent by children of different ages in the vicinity of their caregivers are discussed. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attachment Behavior, Foreign Countries, Infants
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Sonnenschein, Susan – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1982
In two experiments, five-year-old children participated in a referential communication task to investigate (1) whether they were more likely to imitate the length rather than the quality of a speaker's utterances and (2) whether they would confuse length with quality, judging any long communication to be adequate. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communication Skills, Imitation, Metacognition
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Scott, Marcia S.; And Others – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1982
The first experiment investigates the ability of children ranging in age from two to five years to use taxonomic and complementary organizational principles in a forced-choice picture recognition task. The second experiment assesses two alternative classes of cues which may have been used by 2-year-olds to mediate their recognition pairings. (RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Criteria
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Francis, Patricia L.; And Others – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1982
Examines periods of mutual gaze and visual coorientation between mothers and their two- to four-month-old infants as contexts for the utilization of maternal verbal control techniques. Additional questions involve the impact of infant sex and maternal sensitivity upon the utilization of these techniques. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Eye Fixations, Infants, Language Acquisition, Mothers
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Robinson, E. J.; Robinson, W. P. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1982
Thirty-six children between 4.4 and 5.4 years of age were assessed for understanding about the role of message ambiguity as a cause of communication failure and for level of performance in verbal referential communication tasks. Results show that training sessions illustrating when and why listeners understood or failed to understand were…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Research, Communication Skills
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Fan, Liu – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1982
A brief history of Chinese developmental psychology is given, and current main research projects are highlighted. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Communication (Thought Transfer), Developmental Psychology
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Sinclair, Anne – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1982
A brief history of the study of language acquisition is followed by a detailed discussion of two subareas: metalinguistic thinking and the development of literacy. (MP)
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, History, Language Acquisition