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Smiling, Vocal, and Attentive Behavior during Social Contingency Learning in Seven- and Ten-month-old Infants.
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Millar, W. Stuart – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1988
Examines whether infant awareness of efficacy and control relates to increases in socioaffective behavior. Focuses on the relationship between socioaffective behavior and infant experience of contingent and noncontingent events. Explores alternative means of assessing response acquisition. (RH)
Descriptors: Attention, Infant Behavior, Research Methodology
Heart Rate Indices of Newborn Attentional Responsivity
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Porges, Stephen W. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1974
Clarifies issues involved in use of heart rate as index of newborn attentional responsivity by reviewing related studies and concluding that heart rate variability can be used in studying attentional responsivity state, and intra-individual and individual variables. (ED)
Descriptors: Attention, Auditory Stimuli, Behavioral Science Research, Child Development
The Effect of Pain Relieving Drugs Administered During Labor and Delivery on the Behavior of the Newborn
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Aleksandrowicz, Malca K. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1974
Descriptors: Attention, Drug Therapy, Heart Rate, Infant Behavior
Temperament of Small-for-Gestational-Age and Appropriate- for-Gestational-Age Infants across the First Year of Life.
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Halpern, Leslie F.; Coll, Cynthia T. Garcia – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 2000
Temperament development was studied in 39 full-term small-for-gestational-age infants and 30 full-term appropriate-for-gestational-age infants. Temperament was measured at 4, 8, and 12 months of age using a behavioral assessment procedure and questionnaire ratings. Findings indicated that restricted fetal growth negatively affects infant…
Descriptors: Attention, Birth Weight, Emotional Development, Individual Differences
Infants' Response to Live and Replay Interactions with Self and Mother.
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Bigelow, Ann E.; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1996
Explored infants' responses to live and replay interactions with mothers and their own images. Found that to their mothers, infants decreased attention, length of first gazes, and smiling from initial live feedback to replay, and that responses to subsequent live feedback generally remained suppressed. Also found that infants did not show a…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Affective Measures, Attention, Infant Behavior