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Osofksy, Joy D.; O'Connell, Edward J. – Developmental Psychology, 1972
Results indicated that the children's behavior had an effect upon the parents, with mothers and fathers interacting more and being more controlling when the children were dependent. (Authors)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Fathers, Interaction Process Analysis, Mothers
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Moerk, Ernst – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1972
Investigation concentrated on verbal and nonverbal variables of child-mother interactions as it pertains to the child's language development. (MB)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Environmental Influences, Interaction Process Analysis, Language Acquisition
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Ainsworth, Mary D. Salter; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1972
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Data Analysis, Individual Differences, Infant Behavior
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Tulkin, Steven R.; Kagan, Jerome – Child Development, 1972
It was suggested that working-class mothers less frequently believed that their infants were capable of communicating with other people, and hence felt it was futile to attempt to interact with them verbally. (Authors)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Early Experience, Family Environment, Infants
Campbell, Susan B. – 1973
To determine whether maternal involvement reflects her expectations about her child's ability to solve the tasks at hand, a group of 32 boys and their mothers were studied. Sixteen of the boys were classed as reflective and 16 were classed impulsive on the Matching Familiar Figures Test. The boys were matched on age (8 years 9 months and 8 years 6…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Conceptual Tempo, Interaction Process Analysis
Phatak, Pramila; And Others – 1972
The various behavioral phases through which a child passes before he becomes adjusted to school are examined in this report on East Indian children. A program of observation was devised to answer three questions: (1) Do patterns of behavior change as children continue to attend school? (2) Are there different patterns of behavior during the…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Classroom Observation Techniques, Educational Research
Rosenfeld, Howard
A project to determine how children and members of their social environment regulate the stimulation they receive from each other is presented. The general procedure employed was the descriptive and experimental analysis of the behavior of subjects in social interaction situations, as recorded on videotape. Types of dyads videotaped include…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adults, Behavioral Science Research, Economic Factors
Brooks, Jeanne – 1974
This paper presents two studies of the development of social competencies in infancy. In the first experiment, the central issue investigated was whether facial configuration or height is utilized by infants to respond differentially to children and adults. Five different strangers, a male and a female child, a male and a female adult, and a small…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Body Height, Children
Gordon, Susan B. – 1970
The major hypothesis of this study is that a significant relationship exists between English language ability (as measured by the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA) Full-Scale score) and language-modeling by the mother (as measured by the Mother-Child Interaction score on the Language Model Matrix), and between English language…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indians, Environmental Influences, Family Environment