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Zelazo, Nancy A.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1993
The effects of practice on 2 elementary neuromotor patterns, stepping and sitting, were investigated in 32 6-week-old male infants. After 7 weeks, infants who received elicitation of the stepping pattern, alone or in combination with sitting exercises, stepped more than infants who received no exercise or sitting exercise only. (MDM)
Descriptors: Child Development, Drills (Practice), Infant Behavior, Infants
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Masataka, Nobuo – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Used a modified visual-fixation-based auditory-preference procedure to test preferences for infant-directed singing versus adult-directed singing in 15 two-day-old hearing infants of deaf parents. Subjects heard a Japanese and an English play song. Found that infants prefer infant-directed singing over adult-directed singing and that the…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Comparative Analysis, Deafness, Infant Behavior
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Lamb, Michael E. – Developmental Psychology, 1976
This study shows that 12-month-old infants direct more distal/affiliative behaviors to their fathers and show no preference between parents in proximal/attachment behaviors. However, with a stranger present, more proximal/attachment behaviors are directed toward the mother with no preference shown in distal/affiliative behaviors. (JMB)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Infant Behavior, Infants, Parent Child Relationship
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Stamps, Leighton E. – Developmental Psychology, 1977
Descriptors: Classical Conditioning, Heart Rate, Infant Behavior, Neonates
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Shiller, Virginia M.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1986
The facial expressions of twenty-eight 13-month-old middle-class children were videotaped during the 3-minute separation episode of the Ainsworth strange-situation procedure. Anger was the dominant negative emotion expressed by the majority of children; patterns of emotion expression varied with type of attachment; and the proportion of time anger…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Emotional Response, Facial Expressions, Infant Behavior
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Feiring, Candice; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1984
Examined whether an infant's reaction to a stranger would be indirectly influenced by the infant observing a stranger-third party interaction. Subjects were 45 15-month-old infants. Results suggest indirect effects influence social interactions and show that significant others can play an important role in mediating these effects. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Infant Behavior, Infants, Mothers
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Stayton, Donelda J.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1973
Descriptors: Anxiety, Attachment Behavior, Infant Behavior, Longitudinal Studies
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Littenberg, Ronnie; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Anxiety, Cognitive Processes, Infant Behavior, Mothers
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Caron, Rose F.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1971
Experiment demonstrates that the reinforcing efficacy of visual feedback is related to its degree of redundancy. (WY)
Descriptors: Feedback, Infant Behavior, Redundancy, Reinforcement
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McCall, Robert B.; Melson, William H. – Developmental Psychology, 1970
Descriptors: Attention, Design Preferences, Females, Infant Behavior
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Macdonald, Nancy E.; Silverman, Irwin W. – Developmental Psychology, 1978
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, Emotional Response, Infant Behavior, Infants
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Molfese, Dennis; Molfese, Victoria J. – Developmental Psychology, 1979
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Infant Behavior, Infants, Neonates
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Gibson, Eleanor J.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1978
Five-month-old infants were habituated to three types of visually presented rigid motion, with duration of fixation as the dependent measure. After reaching a criterion of habituation, a fourth rigid motion (not habituated) and a deformation were presented. (Author/SS)
Descriptors: Eye Fixations, Infant Behavior, Infants, Motion
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Casey, M. Beth – Developmental Psychology, 1979
Descriptors: Color, Discrimination Learning, Infant Behavior, Infants
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Bornstein, Marc H. – Developmental Psychology, 1979
Descriptors: Color, Discrimination Learning, Generalization, Infant Behavior
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