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Fraley, R. Chris; Spieker, Susan J. – Developmental Psychology, 2003
This study applied Meehl's taxometric techniques for distinguishing latent types from late continua to Strange Situation data on 1,139 fifteen-month-olds from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care. Results indicated that variation in attachment patterns was largely continuous, not categorical. Implications of dimensional models for individual…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Individual Differences, Infant Behavior

Sullivan, Margaret W.; Lewis, Michael – Developmental Psychology, 2003
Two experiments examined how different frustration contexts affect the instrumental and emotional responses of 4- to 5-month-olds. Both experiments showed that arm responses increased when the contingent stimulus was lost or reduced but decreased when control of the stimulus was lost under noncontingency. Facial expressions of anger, but not…
Descriptors: Anger, Context Effect, Contingency Management, Emotional Response

Pauen, Sabina – Child Development, 2002
Two studies examined whether infants' category discrimination in an object-examination task was based solely on an ad hoc analysis of perceptual similarities among the experimental stimuli. Findings indicated that 10- to 11-month- olds' responses varied systematically only with the presence of a category change, but not with the degree of…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Discrimination Learning, Infant Behavior

Brooks, Rechele; Meltzoff, Andrew N. – Developmental Psychology, 2002
Two studies assessed the gaze following of 12-, 14-, and 18-month-olds. Findings indicated that infants at all ages looked at the adult's target more when the adult turned to the target with open eyes than when the adult turned with closed eyes. Additional evidence suggested that infants were not simply responding to adult head turning, but were…
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis

Geist, Eugene – Young Children, 2003
Offers examples of what infants and toddlers might do in early childhood settings, how these behaviors are related to mathematics, and what teachers can do to encourage the natural mathematical interests of this age group. Asserts that teachers' interactions with children are vitally important to children's understanding of early mathematics. (KB)
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Behavior, Concept Formation, Early Childhood Education

Wikander, Birgitta; Helleday, Ann – Early Child Development and Care, 1996
Examined the feelings of mothers when temporarily leaving their infants--who were perceived to cry excessively--to other caretakers. Found through interviews that the mothers were anxious when separated from the infant, had an intensive perception of the infant's crying, and had difficulty sharing responsibility for the infant. (EV)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Crying, Infant Behavior, Infant Care

Johnson, Scott P.; Bremner, J. Gavin; Slater, Alan; Mason, Uschi; Foster, Kirsty; Cheshire, Andrea – Child Development, 2003
Three experiments investigated 2- to 6-month-olds' perception of the continuity of an object trajectory that was briefly occluded. Results across experiments provided little evidence of veridical responses to trajectory occlusion in the youngest infants, but by 6 months, perception completion was more robust. Results suggest that perceptual…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cross Sectional Studies, Developmental Stages, Early Experience

Larzelere, Robert E.; And Others – Family Relations, 1989
Developed the Toddler Behavior Checklist (TBC) using parental reports of the frequencies of 103 patterns of behavior in children from 9 to 48 months old. Five scales were derived from factor analysis: Oppositional, Immaturity, Emotional Instability, Physical Aggression, and Shyness. Four scales demonstrated excellent reliability; reliability of…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Behavior Rating Scales, Child Development

Birch, Leann L. – Developmental Psychology, 1990
Provides a rationale for the significance of the study of early feeding and delineates major issues that require investigation. Includes a list of acquisition processes implicated in the development of food acceptance patterns. (RH)
Descriptors: Child Health, Cognitive Processes, Cultural Influences, Early Experience

Honig, Alice S.; Chung, Moonja – Early Child Development and Care, 1989
Parent interviews with low-income, urban mothers in Korea, India, Sweden, France, and the United States provided a profile of behaviors that mothers used in response to various child behaviors. Although mothers exhibited some behaviors typical of their cultural groups, there were more similarities than differences in responses across cultures.…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries

Malatesta, Carol Z.; And Others – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1989
Examines the course of emotion expression development during the first 2 years of 58 full-term and preterm children through videotapes of mother/infant pairs. Mothers' contingency behavior appeared to have an effect on emotional development, as did birth status and gender. Prematurity was associated with differential socioemotional development.…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Child Development, Emotional Development

Pederson, David R.; Moran, Greg – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1995
Assessed maternal sensitivity and infants' attachment behavior to test validity of a system of classifying attachment relationships at home. Subjects were 47 mothers of preterm and 42 mothers of full-term infants. Results reaffirm Ainsworth's conceptualization of distinct attachment relationships. (HTH)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavioral Science Research, Classification, Infant Behavior

Blass, Elliott M.; Ciaramitaro, Vivian – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1994
Evaluated the effect of pacifiers and sucrose stimulation on the heart rate, coordination, and behaviors of normal infants and infants born to methadone-maintained mothers. Found that pacifiers stimulated immediate changes in all behaviors, which returned to baseline levels when pacifiers were removed. Sucrose stimulation precipitated gradual…
Descriptors: Crying, Heart Rate, Infant Behavior, Infants

Diener, Marissa L.; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1995
Examined associations among parents' characteristics, prenatal expectations for and postpartum perceptions of infant temperament, and observers' ratings of temperament. Found that parents shared expectations for infant's emotional expressivity but differed in expectation for predictability and adaptability. Parent's postpartum ratings of…
Descriptors: Family Characteristics, Fathers, Infant Behavior, Infants

Meadow-Orlans, Kathryn P.; And Others – American Annals of the Deaf, 1995
The histories and behaviors of 5 infants with deafness or hearing deficits and other disabilities were compared with 10 at-risk infants with hearing deficits, 8 infants with hearing deficits not at risk for other disabilities, and 20 normal infants. Mothers' stress levels and infants' behaviors were assessed for the three groups. (SW)
Descriptors: Deafness, Infant Behavior, Infants, Interaction