Search Results - "Early development & parenting"

Explaining facial imitation: a theoretical model by Meltzoff, Andrew N., Moore, M. Keith

“…A long‐standing puzzle in developmental psychology is how infants imitate gestures they cannot see themselves perform (facial gestures). Two critical issues…”
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Number Use at Home by Children and Their Parents and Its Relationship to Early Mathematical Performance by Blevins-Knabe, Belinda, Musun-Miller, Linda

“…The purpose of this research was to measure the frequency and variety of number activities occurring in the homes of pre‐school and kindergarten children and…”
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Visual guidance of passing under a barrier by van der Meer, Audrey L. H.

“…The theory of affordances proposes that organisms control their actions according to the fit between the organism and the environment. This study set out to…”
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Differential rooting response by neonates: evidence for an early sense of self by Rochat, Philippe, Hespos, Susan J.

“…It is proposed that from birth, and long before mirror self‐recognition, infants manifest a sense of self as a differentiated and situated entity in the…”
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Responsive Parenting in the Second Year: Specific Influences on Children's Language and Play by Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S., Bornstein, Marc H., Baumwell, Lisa, Melstein Damast, Amy

“…In two longitudinal studies, relations between dimensions of maternal responsiveness at 13 months and children's language and play abilities at 13 and at 20…”
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Parenting Sensitivity, Parental Depression and Child Health: The Mediational Role of Parental Self-Efficacy by Teti, Douglas M., O'Connell, Melissa A., Reiner, Christine D.

“…This paper discusses the theoretical role of parental self‐efficacy, or parents' beliefs in their competence and effectiveness in the parental role, as a…”
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Assessing the Child's Cognitive Home Environment Through Parental Report; Reliability and Validity by Dreyer, Benard P., Mendelsohn, Alan L., Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S.

“…In a series of investigations with poor minority families, we examined the reliability and validity of the StimQ, an office‐based interview of children's…”
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Life at Home: Same Time, Different Places - An Examination of the HOME Inventory in Different Cultures by Bradley, Robert H., Corwyn, Robert F., Whiteside-Mansell, Leanne

“…In this paper we review literature on the use of the HOME Inventory across cultures. We address issues pertaining to measurement equivalence and validity…”
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Parental nurturance and identification with own father and mother: the reproduction of nurturant parenting by Ahlberg, Christian, Sandnabba, N. Kenneth

“…The purpose of the present study was to investigate the impact of parental identification and role‐modeling on parenting in the next generation, with a special…”
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Differences in child rearing attitudes between immigrant Chinese mothers and Anglo-American mothers by Wang, Chia-Hui Cindy, Phinney, Jean S.

“…In order to explore cultural differences in child rearing attitudes, we studied 30 Anglo‐American mothers and 30 immigrant Chinese mothers in the US, together…”
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Delayed imitation of complex behavioural sequences by 14- to 16-month olds by Eskritt, M., Donald, M., Muir, D. W.

“…The present study was conducted to determine if children under the age of 18 months can exhibit delayed imitation of three‐event sequences when they have no…”
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Maternal speech to 1-year-old children in two Italian cultural contexts by Camaioni, Luigia, Longobardi, Emiddia, Venuti, Paola, Bornstein, Marc H.

“…The present study examines maternal speech to 1‐year‐old children in two cultural contexts in the same nation: an urban industrial town (Padua) and a small…”
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Adults' beliefs about children and mathematics: how important is it and how do children learn about it? by Musun-Miller, Linda, Blevins-Knabe, Belinda

“…A series of studies was conducted which focused on US adults' beliefs about the relative importance of acquiring mathematical skills for preschool children and…”
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Neonatal perception of the rhythmical structure of speech: the role of stress patterns by Sansavini, Alessandra

“…This paper approaches the problem of newborns' segmentation of speech into units, taking into account the language‐specificity of phonological units and…”
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Lateralization of the Approach Movement and the Prehension Movement in Infants from 4 to 7 Months by Morange, Françoise, Bloch, Henriette

“…The aim of the study was to analyse lateralized preferences during reaching and grasping in infants relative to changes in manual actions from 4 to 7 months of…”
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The conditioned head turn procedure as a method for testing infant speech perception by Werker, Janet F., Polka, Linda, Pegg, Judith E.

“…The purpose of this paper is to present and describe the Conditioned Head Turn procedure, with primary focus on its use as a method for testing infant speech…”
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The Development of Early Attachment Behaviours by Hoeksma, Jan B., Koomen, Helma M. Y., Van den Boom, Dymphna

“…The normative development of attachment behaviours and the changing relationship between the level of activation of the attachment system and the intensity of…”
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Sensitive Caregiving Fosters the Comprehension of Speech: When Gestures Speak Louder than Words by Zukow-Goldring, Patricia

“…Despite a variety of theoretical arguments to the contrary, sensitive caregiving makes an important contribution to the comprehension and emergence of speech…”
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Touch by Intrusive and Withdrawn Mothers with Depressive Symptoms by Malphurs, Julie E., Raag, Taria, Field, Tiffany, Pickens, Jeffrey, Pelaez-Nogueras, Martha

“…Interaction behaviours of 88 adolescent mothers with depressive symptoms and their 3‐month‐old infants were videotaped and coded for different types of touch…”
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Her heart is in the right place: an investigation of the 'heartbeat hypothesis' as an explanation of the left side cradling preference in a mother with dextrocardia by Todd, Brenda, Butterworth, George

“…A majority of mothers, whether right‐ or left‐handed, exhibit a preference to hold their babies to the left of the body midline. One of the earliest…”
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