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How Young Children Explore, Follow and Impose Rules during Object-Oriented Play: A Multiple Case Study
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Wynberg, Elizabeth R.; van der Wilt, Femke; Boland, Annerieke; Raijmakers, Maartje E. J.; van der Veen, Chiel – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2022
In early childhood, young children frequently engage in object-oriented play. According to cultural-historical activity theory, object-oriented play provides children with opportunities to learn about the characteristics and cultural applications of objects and materials. These characteristics are referred to as rules or affordances of objects and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Play, Child Development, Learning Processes
Relations of Preschoolers' Visual-Motor and Object Manipulation Skills with Executive Function and Social Behavior
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MacDonald, Megan; Lipscomb, Shannon; McClelland, Megan M.; Duncan, Rob; Becker, Derek; Anderson, Kim; Kile, Molly – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this article was to examine specific linkages between early visual-motor integration skills and executive function, as well as between early object manipulation skills and social behaviors in the classroom during the preschool year. Method: Ninety-two children aged 3 to 5 years old (M[subscript age] = 4.31 years) were…
Descriptors: Correlation, Visual Perception, Psychomotor Skills, Executive Function
Mothers and Blankets as Agents for Promoting Play and Exploration by Young Children in a Novel Environment: The Effects of Social and Non-Social Attachment Objects
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Passman, Richard H.; Weisberg, Paul – Developmental Psychology, 1975
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Development, Object Manipulation, Parent Child Relationship
The Effect of Peer Age on the Social Behavior of Preschool Children
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Langlois, Judith H.; And Others – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1978
Presents a study of social- and object-directed behaviors of preschool children in same or mixed age dyads. Subjects were three- and five-year-oldpreschool children. (BD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Age Groups, Behavior Patterns, Object Manipulation
Early Social Behavior: Age and Sex Baseline Data from a Hidden Population
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Gottfried, Nathan W.; Seay, Bill – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1974
A total of 53 rural, impoverished children (37 aged 3-5, from a day care center and 16 5-year-olds from a Head Start Center) were investigated for influences of age and sex on early social behavior. Individuals were observed in 15-minute play sessions and assessed with a standard observational category system. (CS)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Rating Scales, Low Income Groups, Object Manipulation
Orientation to the Social vs. Physical Environment: Relationship to Intellectual Abilities of Preschool Children.
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Jennings, Kay D. – 1974
In this study, preferences for activities with people vs. objects were examined in preschool children and related to two kinds of intellectual abilities. Children with high object orientation were expected to be relatively advanced in organizing and classifying physical objects. In contrast, children with high people orientation were expected to…
Descriptors: Activities, Cognitive Ability, Early Experience, Intellectual Development