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McMullen, Mary Benson – Early Childhood Research & Practice, 2010
This reflective essay describes the author's experiences as an observer in a behaviorist infant classroom. The author developed four categories of practice to describe what happened in the behaviorist infant room: (1) curricular focus on training typically developing infants to meet typical developmental milestones, (2) the use of highly…
Descriptors: Infants, Constructivism (Learning), Observation, Child Care
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Fagan, Mary K.; Iverson, Jana M. – Infancy, 2007
Although vocalization and mouthing are behaviors frequently performed by infants, little is known about the characteristics of vocalizations that occur with objects, hands, or fingers in infants' mouths. The purpose of this research was to investigate characteristics of vocalizations associated with mouthing in 6 to 9-month-old infants during play…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Infants, Infant Behavior, Language Acquisition
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Gunnar, Megan R.; And Others – Child Development, 1987
The Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale with Kansas Supplement was administered to 60 newborns who were classified as extremely healthy or as having slight perinatal problems. Correlations between behavioral responding on the assessment scale and levels of plasma cortisol (obtained from blood tests) were examined. (PCB)
Descriptors: Infant Behavior, Neonates
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Cheng, Hei Yan; Murdoch, Bruce E.; Goozee, Justine V.; Scott, Dion – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2007
Purpose: This investigation aimed to examine the development of tongue-jaw coordination during speech from childhood to adolescence. Method: Electromagnetic articulography was used to track tongue and jaw motion in 48 children and adults (aged 6-38 years) during productions of /t/ and /k/ embedded in sentences. Results: The coordinative…
Descriptors: Adults, Sentences, Motor Development, Children
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Robinson, Christopher W.; Sloutsky, Vladimir M. – Infancy, 2007
Although it is generally accepted that labels facilitate categorization in infancy, recent evidence suggests that infants and young children are more likely to process visual input when presented in isolation than when paired with nonlinguistic sounds or linguistic labels. These findings suggest that auditory input (when compared to a no-auditory…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Linguistics, Infants, Classification
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Brand, Rebecca J.; Tapscott, Stephanie – Infancy, 2007
This study investigated whether acoustic input, in the form of infant-directed speech, influenced infants' segmenting of action sequences. Thirty-two 7.5- to 11.5-month-old infants were familiarized with video sequences made up of short action clips. Narration coincided with portions of the action stream to package certain pairs of clips together.…
Descriptors: Infants, Parent Child Relationship, Narration, Acoustics
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Quinn, Paul C.; Intraub, Helene – Child Development, 2007
This investigation examined whether infants display "boundary extension"--a tendency to remember more of a visual scene than was presented. Three- to 7-month-olds were familiarized with a photograph of a visual scene, and tested with wide-angle versus close-up views of the scene. Infants preferred the close-up, indicating that they perceived the…
Descriptors: Photography, Infants, Pictorial Stimuli, Visual Perception
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Bernier, Annie; Meins, Elizabeth – Developmental Psychology, 2008
Disorganized attachment in infancy is known to predict a wide range of maladaptive outcomes, but its origins are poorly understood. Parental lack of resolution concerning loss or trauma has been proposed to result in atypical parenting behaviors, which in turn have a disorganizing effect on the parent-child relationship. The authors review the…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Parent Child Relationship, Social Environment, Nature Nurture Controversy
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Steeve, Roger W.; Moore, Christopher A.; Green, Jordan R.; Reilly, Kevin J.; McMurtrey, Jacki Ruark – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2008
Purpose: The ontogeny of mandibular control is important for understanding the general neurophysiologic development for speech and alimentary behaviors. Prior investigations suggest that mandibular control is organized distinctively across speech and nonspeech tasks in 15-month-olds and adults and that, with development, these extant forms of…
Descriptors: Investigations, Human Body, Infants, Neurological Organization
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Horne, Pauline J.; Erjavec, Mihela – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2007
Two experiments were conducted to investigate generalized imitation of manual gestures in 1- to 2-year-old infants. In Experiment 1, 6 infants were first trained four baseline matching relations (e.g., when instructed "Do this," to raise their arms after they saw the experimenter do so). Next, four novel gestures that the infants did not match in…
Descriptors: Evidence, Imitation, Infants, Generalization
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Burnham, Melissa M. – Infant and Child Development, 2007
The purpose of the current study was to investigate the development of sleep-wake and melatonin diurnal rhythms over the first 3 months of life, and the potential effect of bed-sharing on their development. It was hypothesized that increased maternal contact through bed-sharing would affect the development of rhythms in human infants. Ten…
Descriptors: Sleep, Infants, Infant Behavior, Child Development
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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
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Robertson, Steven S. – Child Development, 1982
The temporal organization of spontaneous movement in healthy, awake neonates was studied on the second or third day after birth. Movement was recorded using time lapse photography and quantified as a function of time. Evidence of intrinsic temporal organization among subjects was found. (MP)
Descriptors: Infant Behavior, Neonates, Spontaneous Behavior
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Campos, Rosemary Gates – Child Development, 1989
Compares the effectiveness of pacifiers and swaddling in reducing distress resulting from pain in 32 2-week-old infants and 32 2-month-old infants. Pacifiers soothed infants more rapidly and completely than swaddling. (RJC)
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, Infant Behavior, Infants
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Mao, Amy; Burnham, Melissa M.; Goodlin-Jones, Beth L.; Gaylor, Erika E.; Anders, Thomas F. – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2004
This study examined whether 3-15, month-old cosleeping infants displayed differences in time spent in active versus quiet sleep, and in the number/duration of nighttime awakenings when compared with solitary-sleeping infants; and also whether they spent the majority of the night sleeping face-to-face, as previously reported. Nine cosleeping and…
Descriptors: Sleep, Infants, Infant Behavior, Mothers
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