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Comparative Study of the Natural Habitat Behaviors of Children with Autism and Children with Down Syndrome: An Ecological Approach.

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Ruble, Lisa Ann – 1997

A study involving eight boys with autism and eight boys with Down syndrome (ages 6-10) with similar adaptive behavior levels used an ecological approach to study the in-depth structure of the behavior stream. Narrative records were collected and analyzed based on duration and frequency of behaviors. Each record was analyzed by marking the behavior…

Descriptors: Attention Span, Autism, Behavior Patterns, Child Behavior

The Development of a Set of Conditioning Tasks to Measure Conditionability as a Stable Aspect of Behavior--A Feasibility Study.

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Strong, Emily; Vallery, Arlee

Tests of conditionability in infants were used in a longidudinal study of 32 subjects in the first year of life. The research was based on Eysenck's hypothesis that conditionability i s a unitary factor related to introversion-extroversion and attention span. The objective of the investigators was to devise a battery of conditioning tasks…

Descriptors: Attention Span, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Development, Conditioning