Cyclical fluctuation in spontaneous motor activity (CM) emerges in fetus and persists in newborn. This "resetting" experiment perturbed CM by noise stimulus during infants' active sleep. Pre- and postperturbation CM were measured and compared. Subjects were 33 infants between 1 and 3 days of age. The stimulus induced a relative slowing of CM…

Examines infants' ability to detect correlations among feature categories of the type that one might expect to be useful in forming natural object categories. (PCB)

This study compared data on sleep disturbances of 22 autistic children obtained by questionnaires with data obtained with actigraphy. Questionnaire responses indicated that autistic children had an earlier morning awakening time and multiple and early night arousals; actigraphic monitoring, however, showed their sleep patterns were normal except…

The Circle of Courage model for positive youth development proposes belonging, mastery, generosity, and independence as the central values in positive cultures for the education of our youth. This article identifies books for children and adolescents that can be used by teacher and parents to foster the development of belonging. (Author/MKA)

This is the last in a series of articles on the four elements of the Circle of Courage. Traditional Native American child development practices have created environments of belonging, mastery, independence, and generosity. Discusses the theme of generosity from a Native American perspective. (Author/GCP)

Investigated how attitudes toward childhood change with age during adulthood. Questionnaire results from educational professionals, parents, university students, and teachers indicated that respondents' age was related to perceptions of when childhood begins and ends, the happiness with which they rated their own childhood, the types of words used…

Discusses the relationship between learning and child development and offers an activity and a model of integrated subject areas. (JOW)

Highlights selected construction projects for learning centers, early childhood and development schools, and special purpose educational facilities that have won the Learning By Design Awards for 2001.(GR)

Tested 226 children aged 6 to 9 years on an inspection time (IT) task in year 1. Immediately retested the children to study task familiarity and then tested them 1 year and 2 years later. Results indicate that task experience has a bigger effect on children's IT than maturation. (SLD)

Three distinct periods mark the history of developmental psychology in Canada. Period 1 was dominated by cognitive developmental theorist, James Mark Baldwin. Period 2, defined by the Child Study Movement, began in the 1920s with Mental Hygiene Movement and founding of two child study centers. Period 3, started in the 1950s, focused on…

Studied ordinal numerical knowledge in 2- and 3-year-old children in 2 experiments involving 46 children. Results show that children as young as 2 years make purely numerical discriminations, but children who lacked any verbal numerical knowledge could not make ordinal judgments. (SLD)

A review of research on brain imaging of developmental stuttering concludes that findings increasingly point to a failure of normal temporal lobe activation during speech that may either contribute to (or is the result of) a breakdown in the sequencing of processing among premotor regions implicated in phonologic planning. (Contains references.)…

The major conceptual and empirical advances in the field of child development and in the Society for Research for Child Development (SRCD) as a professional organization over the last 70 years are examined. First, despite reasons for some skepticism, it is argued that both the field and organization have achieved significant progress. Second,…

Historically, developmental psychology has been split into the areas of social development and cognitive development, with the cognitive area most recently dominating the field. Nevertheless, basic questions about development often require more integrative approaches, cutting across social and cognitive areas, while taking advantage of recent…

Domestic violence has been an intense area of study in recent decades. Early studies helped with the understanding of the nature of perpetration, the cycle of violence, and the effect of family violence on children. More recently, studies have focused on beginning to evaluate domestic violence interventions and their effects on recidivism. This…