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Peer reviewedLoveland, Katherine A. – Child Development, 1987
Exploratory behaviors of Down Syndrome and nondelayed young children between the mental ages of 16 and 32 months were examined in four situations in which they tried to find things which they saw reflected in a mirror. Down Syndrome and nondelayed children differed in number, type, and frequency of exploratory behaviors. (PCB)
Descriptors: Child Development, Comparative Analysis, Downs Syndrome, Exploratory Behavior
Peer reviewedTager-Flusberg, Helen – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1985
Describes three experiments that tested autistic children's nonverbal and verbal categorization abilities. Concludes that autistic children do not suffer a specific cognitive deficit in ability to categorize and form abstract concepts. (HOD)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Autism, Classification, Cognitive Ability
Peer reviewedRieder, Carolyn; Cicchetti, Dante – Developmental Psychology, 1989
Examined the relation between a history of maltreatment and cognitive control functioning in two groups of preschool and early school-age maltreated and nonmaltreated children. Maltreated children showed developmentally impaired cognitive control functioning on a number of tasks. (RH)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Aggression, Child Abuse
