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The Development of Laughter in the First Year of Life
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Sroufe, 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
The Effect of Naming and Object Permanence on Toy Preference
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Black, Kathryn Norcross; Roberts, Gail C. – Child Development, 1972
Purpose of the study was to determine whether a name for a toy affects an infant's attentional preference for a toy and whether this process is related to the infant's concept of subject permanence. (Authors)
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Attention, Child Language, Infants
The Salience of Orientation in Young Children's Perception of Form
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McGurk, Harry – Child Development, 1972
Results indicate that for children in this study's age range orientation is a less salient discriminative cue than either size or color. (Author/MB)
Descriptors: Dimensional Preference, Discrimination Learning, Orientation, Preschool Children
Successive Presentations of Elements of the Mueller-Lyer Figure and CA, MA, and IQ: An Age Extension and Unsuccessful Replication
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Hartmann, Donald P.; And Others – Child Development, 1972
Although Ss underestimated the size of the illusion in the predicted direction, no significant correlations between size of illusion and either age or IQ were found. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age, Age Differences, Elementary School Students, Intelligence
Concept Conservation in Children: The Dependence of Belief Systems on Semantic Representation
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Saltz, Eli; Medow, Miriam Lucas – Child Development, 1971
Results appear to indicate that the belief systems of the young child about the attributes of a stimulus person can be altered extensively by introducing characteristics completely unrelated to these attributes into the semantic representation of that person. (Authors)
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Beliefs, Childhood Attitudes, Cognitive Processes
Multidimensional Scaling of Dimensional Preferences: A Methodological Study
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Seitz, Victoria R. – Child Development, 1971
It was concluded that the scaled preference values have high face validity and that they suggest the need for reexamination of some previous experimental results. (Author)
Descriptors: Cluster Analysis, Dimensional Preference, Kindergarten Children, Measurement Techniques
Perceptual Inadequacy and Communicative Ineffectiveness in Interpersonal Communication
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Longhurst, Thomas M.; Turnure, James E. – Child Development, 1971
Investigation indicates that perceptual inadequacy must be controlled in studies that utilize ambiguous, novel or nonsense designs in stimulus materials. (Authors)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Problems, Discrimination Learning, Perception
Visual Scanning Strategies of Reflective, Impulsive, Fast-Accurate, and Slow-Inaccurate Children on the Matching Familiar Figures Test
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Ault, Ruth L.; And Others – Child Development, 1972
Descriptors: Conceptual Tempo, Elementary School Students, Eye Movements, Grade 3
Selective Strategies in Children's Attention to Task-Relevant Information
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Lehman, Elyse Brauch – Child Development, 1972
Results suggest that selective attention is a multifaceted skill, with development of its parts progressing at different rates. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Dimensional Preference, Elementary School Students