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Loneliness, Anxiety, Hostility, and Communication.
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Mijuskovic, Ben – Child Study Journal, 1986
Jerzy Kosinski's "The Painted Bird" is used as a case study to illustrate the universal and necessary unity which binds loneliness, hostility, anxiety, and despair over the possibility of communicating within individual isolated human consciousness. (HOD/Author)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Anxiety, Child Development, Emotional Development
Electroencephalogram Asymmetry in Response to the Approach of a Stranger and Maternal Separation in 10-Month-Old Infants.
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Fox, Nathan A.; Davidson, Richard J. – Developmental Psychology, 1987
Reports relationship between asymmetries in frontal-brain electrical activity and individual differences in affective response in 35 ten-month-old females. Stranger-approach, mother-approach, and maternal-separation experiences were presented while an electroencephalogram (EEG) from scalp regions was recorded and facial and other behavioral…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Behavior Rating Scales, Electroencephalography
Emotional Responses of Down Syndrome and Normal Infants in the Strange Situation: The Organization of Affective Behavior in Infants.
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Thompson, Ross A.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1985
Compares the separation distress of 26 19-month-old Downs Syndrome infants in the Strange Situation with that of 43 normal infants who were observed at 12 1/2 and 19 1/2 months to assess whether Downs Syndrome infants responded more similarly to cognitively comparable normals than to age-comparable normals. (HOD)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes