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Socio-moral expectations in infants and toddlers
The present research explored whether infants and toddlers would have early expectations of socio-moral norms. In particular, we asked whether and how children’s expectations about reciprocity would be modulated by considerations of ingroup loyalty. Chapter 2 focused on the idea of “escalation” and …
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CAN TODDLERS LEARN NOVEL WORDS FROM EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS?
The current study employed a mixed design to assess word learning in infants under the age of two. Four conditions were used to see if babies who watched an infant-directed DVD at least six times over two weeks, or who watched an infant-directed DVD with parental mediation at least six times over …
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Cylinders and spheres : toddlers engage in problem solving
1 PDF file (vii, 149 pages)
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Phonemic awareness and sight word reading in toddlers
… sight word recognition abilities in two-year-old toddlers using plain text and MorphoPhonic Face words on flash cards. MorphoPhonic Face words were used to determine if this learning process is enhanced when words are iconically represented to show the first sound and the word's meaning …
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Accuracy Of Parental Report On Phonological Inventories Of Toddlers
… reporting the speech sound inventories of their toddlers. Parents of 30 children, who were between the ages of 27 to 33 months old, completed the SSD prior to a speech and language assessment session. Based on assessment results, the children were classified as normal developing or language …
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Joint Music Attention Between toddlers and A Music Teacher
… the nature ofjoint music attentionbetween toddlers and myself, an early childhood music teacher. Guiding research questions were (a) How do toddlers and I, a music teacher, exhibit signs of joint music attention when socially interacting using a music curriculum based on Gordon's music …
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Toddlers' Spontaneous Attention to Number and Verbal Number Quantification
… size, and heterogeneity of the objects affect toddlers' tendency to focus on number. Each of 37 participants between the ages of 2 and 4.25 years was shown 36 different collections of 2, 3, and 4 items that were homogeneous, semihomogeneous, or heterogeneous. Age, collection size, and …
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Emotion regulation in toddlers: Developmental changes and individual differences
This study examined toddlers' emotion regulation strategies in a variety of episodes designed to elicit fear, frustration, and positive affect. Ninety-four mothers and their 18- (N = 50) or 24-month-old (N = 44) children participated. Mothers completed a set of questionnaires on their …
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Assessing language development in Arabic-learning monolingual and bilingual toddlers
Assessing children’s language is fundamental for changing their developmental outcome as it gives a chance for a quick and early intervention with a suitable planning and monitoring program. Since there is no universal Arabic language screening tool that can be used for the assessment of …
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The Relationship of Television Viewing at Home and Toddlers' Language Skills
… study was to explore the relationship between toddlers' television viewing at home and their language skills. Two other variables, family socioeconomic status and mothers' levels of education, were included in order to examine if these two variables and the amount of toddlers' TV viewing at …
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Early Language Learning and Teaching of Toddlers from Mexican Immigrant Homes
… the second study, naturalistic recordings of the toddlers' language input in the home were analyzed in-depth to describe features of the quantity and quality of the input to which children were exposed. A wide range of variability in children’s quantity and quality was found. In addition, the …
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Using Contents and Containers to investigate problem solving strategies among toddlers
1 PDF file (xi, 159 pages)
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Toddlers' reasoning about the origins of human actions, emotions, and knowledge
… to assess knowledge of these relationships, toddlers were administered a modified version of the preferential looking task that included videotaped stories involving actors and objects. The results of this series of experiments suggested that children as young as 18 months are …
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Does Screen Time Help or Hinder Toddlers' Development of Prosocial Behaviour?
Although an important topic of discussion amongst parents, the impacts of screen use in toddlerhood and early childhood are not well studied. In particular, although some developmental outcomes (i.e., sleep and aggression in older children) have been considered in relation to screen time, much less …
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Communicative behaviors of toddlers with very low birth weight in social contexts
… to examine the social-communicative behaviors of toddlers born with Very Low Birth Weight (VLBW) in contexts of social interaction and communicative temptation. Nineteen toddlers with VLBW were compared to nineteen NBW toddlers on communicative means, communicative functions, reciprocity and …
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What Relationships Exist Between Words In The Lexical-Semantic Systems Of Toddlers?
Investigating how infants first establish relationships between words is a necessary step towards understanding the qualitative shift children make to an organised and complex interconnected network of semantic relationships which characterises a mature, adult lexical-semantic system. Since little …
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Toddlers’ Participation in Early Childhood Setting Experiences in Iran and New Zealand
… Childhood Education (ECE). Yet, research on toddlers’ right to participate and the ways participation may occur in play and learning experiences remains underrepresented. Children’s participation takes shape in two ways. First, children’s participation is their social engagement to construct …
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