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The Effects of Consequences on Patterns of Social Interaction: A Quasi-Experimental Approach to Reinforcement in Natural Interaction.
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Snyder, James; Patterson, Gerald R. – Child Development, 1986
Identifies reliable mother action-child reaction patterns and assesses the effect of maternal consequences for those patterns on the probability of their subsequent occurrence. (HOD)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Compliance (Psychology), Mothers
Inhibited and Uninhibited Children: A Follow-up Study.
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Reznick, J. Steven; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Observed a group of 46 children classified at 20 months as either behaviorally inhibited or uninhibited, and 18 children who were classified aa falling at neither extreme at 5.5 years of age, in contexts designed to evaluate behavior in social situations and heart rate, heart variability, and pupillary dilation to cognitive tasks. (HOD)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis
Salivary Cortisol as a Predictor of Socioemotional Adjustment during Kindergarten: A Prospective Study.
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Smider, N. A.; Essex, M. J.; Kalin, N. H.; Buss, K. A.; Klein, M. H.; Davidson, R. J.; Goldsmith, H. H. – Child Development, 2002
Examined whether activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical system, as indexed by average home afternoon levels of cortisol in children age 4.5 years, would predict socioemotional adjustment measured a year and a half later. Found that higher cortisol levels were associated with withdrawal-type behaviors of internalizing and social…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Biochemistry, Child Behavior, Emotional Adjustment
Gender, Adult Structuring of Activities, and Social Behavior in Middle Childhood.
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Huston, Aletha C.; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Examines whether there are sex differences during middle childhood in children's choices to participate in activities differing in level of adult-provided structure; effects of structure on children's compliance, leadership, and recognition seeking directed to adults and to peers; and relation of sex-typed social skills or dispositions and…
Descriptors: Adults, Attribution Theory, Behavior Development, Child Development