This study documents the home literacy experiences of children born with very low birth weight (VLBW). The study's design was modelled after Purcell-Gates' study of social domains mediated by print as home literacy experiences. A design combining purposeful sampling, semi-structured data collection and descriptive case study analysis was employed…

This report presents findings from the Massachusetts Family Child Care study, a two-year evaluation of the impacts of an early childhood education program on providers and children in family child care. The program--"LearningGames"--is designed to train caregivers to stimulate children's cognitive, language, and social-emotional…

Two studies used event-related potentials (ERPs) to examine neural manifestations of emotion recognition in 7-month-old infants. In the first study, 20 infants were presented with 2 alternating achromatic slides of the same female model posing a happy and a fearful expression. Infants' ERPs revealed a prominent positive component to the happy face…

The concept of limits on child and teenage behavior is discussed in this book. Section I includes the core hypothesis of the theory of limits and discusses these essential concepts: (1) the pleasure/pain principle (the need to increase tolerance for stimulation in the pain center of the brain in order to be able to tolerate more stimulation in the…

Two studies looked into the ability of 3- to 5-year-olds to understand the idea that a person who intends to bring about a bad outcome will be pleased when he does so. Previous studies had conflicting outcomes; one found children under age 7 did not understand the idea, while another found that most 5-year-olds did. The first of the two studies…

The Knox-Sporakowski Attitudes Towards Love scale was subjected to factor analysis. Principal component analysis indicated unidimensionality of the scale. Additional analyses suggested the possibility of three subscales. Labels for the subscales were assigned. Suggestions for further research with the scale were made. (Author)

This study investigated the development of perceptual, cognitive, and affective perspective taking in 167 kindergarten through sixth grade children. Task intercorrelations were low, nonsignificant, and inconsistent, supporting the view that perspective taking is a multidimensional social-cognitive construct. (JMB)

This article discusses helping children cope with death. It also presents some of the issues related to the way our society deals with the topic and the reality of death. (Author)

An assessment of the occurrence of three forms of humor (responsive, productive, and hostile) during the activities of 30 nursery school children. The three humor forms were not significantly correlated. The relation of the ongoing activities and the pattern of humor exhibited, along with the significant sex differences in humor expression are…

Defines the term "affective behavior" and describes two techniques (self-report and observational method) for measuring affective orientations of students. (HMV)

Middle and working class sixth grade children were compared on various aspects of emotional development. A relation between social class and knowledge of affect terms previously found in 4-6 year olds did not continue into later childhood, contrary to expectations. Methodological and educational implications are discussed. (Author/EH)

A Cerebral palsied woman offers a brief biographical sketch which focuses on the emotional aspects of her childhood, adolescence and young adulthood. (GW)

Condensed from an address given at a Convocation of Students at Wayne State University in the summer of 1968.

Designed to supplement Indiana's curriculum guidelines for social studies instruction of gifted students, the manual provides introductory information on gifted and talented students and presents activity suggestions for Grades K through 3, 4 through 6, 7 through 8, and 9 through 12. At each grade level, the themes, topics, attitudes, and skills…