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Peer reviewedPatterson, G. R. – Child Development, 1974
Describes procedures for identifying stimuli in the natural environment whose presence was associated with altered probabilities for both the initiation and persistence of noxious responses. (Author/SDH)
Descriptors: Aggression, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Environment
Peer reviewedTer Vrugt, Dick; Pederson, David R. – Child Development, 1973
Purpose of this experiemnt was to systematically investigate the behavioral effects of vertical rocking at different frequencies up to 1.5 Hz. (Authors/CB)
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, Data Analysis, Infant Behavior, Motor Reactions
Peer reviewedGreenberg, David J.; O'Donnell, William J. – Child Development, 1972
Study attempted to determine the viability of optimal level theory as it pertains to infant perceptual and cognitive development. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Data Analysis, Infants
Peer reviewedSpence, Janet T. – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Data Analysis, Disadvantaged, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedLeCompte, Guney K.; Gratch, Gerald – Child Development, 1972
Development of object identity was studied within the framework of a hiding game that varied the objects themselves instead of their spatial positions. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Developmental Psychology, Infant Behavior
Peer reviewedLewis, Michael; Johnson, Norma – Child Development, 1971
Data from infants unable to complete experimental sessions were compared to those for whom there were complete data. Results suggest that the elimination of large numbers of infants may have a potentially biasing effect on reported data. (Authors)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Infant Behavior, Infants, Reliability
Peer reviewedWilloughby, Robert H. – Child Development, 1973
Primary purpose of the study was to ascertain the effectiveness of different methods of training children to solve the two-choice conditional matching problem. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Data Analysis, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedScholnick, Ellin Kofsky – Child Development, 1971
Data suggest that the effectiveness of verbalization in concept identification depends on the aspect of the task which is verbalized. (Author)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Cues, Grade 2, Kindergarten Children
Peer reviewedKatz, Roger C. – Child Development, 1971
Study investigated the effects of a response-produced intense-noise stimulus (punishment) on the extinction of children's hitting behavior. (Author)
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Behavioral Science Research, Conditioning, Data Analysis
Peer reviewedWeissberg, Paul; Russell, James E. – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Data Analysis, Parent Child Relationship, Psychological Needs
Peer reviewedGoldstein, Sondra Blevins; Siegel, Alexander W. – Child Development, 1971
Study found that stimulus presence during a delay of reinforcement interval enhanced performance, and to a large extent prevented the usual delay-produced decrement. (Authors)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Discrimination Learning, Grade 3, Intervals
Peer reviewedMartin, Marian F.; And Others – Child Development, 1971
Results indicate that there is no simple relationship between type of observer present and children's aggressive responding following exposure to an aggressive model. (Authors)
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavioral Science Research, Data Analysis, Models
Peer reviewedSroufe, L. Alan; Wunsch, Jane Piccard – Child Development, 1972
Results are discussed in terms of cognitive growth, the psychoanalytic notion of ambivalence, the role of stimulus context in eliciting laughter or fear, and a possible adaptive, stimulus-maintaining function of laughter. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Infants
Peer reviewedMillar, Susanna – Child Development, 1972
Results showed that instructions significantly increased recognition accuracy. (Author/MB)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Preschool Children, Recognition, Responses
Peer reviewedMiller, Leon K. – Child Development, 1972
Results were interpreted in terms of current conceptions of age differences in information-processing speed. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Data Analysis, Developmental Psychology, Information Processing
