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Baby-Caregiver Dyadic Exchanges in Different Placement Settings: An Ethological Study
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Ducreux, Edwige; Puentes-Neuman, Guadalupe – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
This study used an ethological approach to explore the baby-caregiver dyadic exchanges (Attempted interactions, Triggers, Interactions) of nineteen infants during their first weeks in Residential Care (RC), or a Foster Family (FF) or an Infant-Mother Centre (IMC). Direct observations were conducted at feeding time. Observed behaviours were: baby…
Descriptors: Infants, Parent Child Relationship, Nonverbal Communication, Ethology
Hemispheric Asymmetry in a Face Discrimination Task in Infants.
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de Schonen, Scania; Mathivet, Eric – Child Development, 1990
Confirms the existence of a right-hemisphere advantage in the process of discriminating between face stimuli. The advantage was weaker in females than in males. No hemispheric transfer of learning was observed. Subjects were 18 infants of 42 weeks who were presented with an operant conditioning situation in which they discriminated between their…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Discrimination Learning, Foreign Countries, Infant Behavior
Child-Rearing Practices of Urban Poor Mothers of Infants and Three-Year-Olds in Five Cultures.
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Honig, Alice S.; Chung, Moonja – Early Child Development and Care, 1989
Parent interviews with low-income, urban mothers in Korea, India, Sweden, France, and the United States provided a profile of behaviors that mothers used in response to various child behaviors. Although mothers exhibited some behaviors typical of their cultural groups, there were more similarities than differences in responses across cultures.…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries
Infant Attention Scaffolding at Home.
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Findji, Francois – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1998
Proposes to identify the mechanisms underlying the links between maternal attention directing strategies and infants' focused attention. Observes onset and offset of maternal behaviors toward objects and infants' attention in a sample of 50 dyads during the first year of life. Discusses research methods, results, and implications for further…
Descriptors: Attention, Educational Psychology, Foreign Countries, Infant Behavior
L'etablissement des relations interpersonnelles pendant les trois premieres annees
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Boulanger-Balleyguier, G. – International Journal of Early Childhood, 1975
The article reports the results of a longitudinal study of 39 children from birth to 3 years in which the child's relationships with his mother, father, and older siblings were recorded under the general categories of affection, imitation, direct aggression and indirect aggression. (MS)
Descriptors: Affection, Aggression, Birth Order, Early Childhood Education
Mother and Infant Activity and Interaction in France and in the United States: A Comparative Study.
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Bornstein, Marc H.; And Others – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1991
This study focused on French and U.S. mother-infant dyads interacting in their homes. Infants' visual attention, tactual exploration, vocalization and mothers' mediated and unmediated stimulation and speech to infants were observed. Mothers and infants in the two cultures showed some similarities and some different emphases in their activities,…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Infant Behavior
Parenting in Cross-Cultural Perspective: The United States, France, and Japan.
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Bornstein, Marc H.; And Others – 1991
In this study of prominent characteristics of parenting in the United States, France, and Japan, 72 mother-infant dyads were examined. The study focused on three prominent interactive domains of visual and vocal exchange between mother and baby (nurturing, social exchange, and didactic stimulation), examining their frequency of occurrence and…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Rearing, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences