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Farber, Bernard; Lewis, Michael – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 1972
Authors attacks compensatory education as an ineffectual way of dealing with social inequalities, while underlying social problems go unsolved. (SP)
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged, Social Change
Peer reviewedMesser, Stanley B.; Lewis, Michael – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1972
The most impressive class difference in one-year-old infants revealed by this study was that lower-class infants vocalized considerably less in the playroom than did middle-class infants. (Authors)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Infant Behavior, Parent Child Relationship, Play
Peer reviewedWeinraub, Marsha; Lewis, Michael – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1977
Verbal and nonverbal behaviors of fifty 2-year-old children and their mothers were recorded during free play, departure, and separation situations. Measures of the child's and mother's cognitive abilities and maternal cognitive style were also obtained. Sex and social class differences in child and maternal behaviors within each situation were…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Style, Infants
Download full textGallas, Howard B.; Lewis, Michael – 1977
This study examines the relationship between mother-infant behavior and the infant's performance on perceptual-cognitive tasks as a function of the infant's sex. A total of 189 12-week-old infants and their mothers were observed in their homes during 2 hours of infant awake time. In addition, the Mental Development Index (MDI) of the Bayley Scales…
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education, Infant Behavior
Lewis, Michael; Wilson, Cornelia D. – 1971
This study was conducted to observe the effects of social class on the interaction of mothers and their 12-week-old infants. Data on the infants' cognitive and attentive behavior was also obtained. Each of 32 white and black infants from five different levels of social class was observed at home for two full hours of waking time. Observed infant…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Black Mothers, Blacks, Child Rearing
