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Showing 1 to 20 of 269 for “"preschoolers"”.
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Preschoolers' endogenously triggered self-regulation
Self-regulation is one of the most important developments of early childhood. The ability to voluntarily control emotions, actions, and cognitions in the presence of two competing demands is vital to adaptive and autonomous functioning throughout the life course. The competing demands that make up …
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Product Packaging, Pester Power, & Preschoolers
… future research by exploring the pester power of preschoolers in reference to product packaging and grocery shopping and with regard to gender, age, and birth order. Preschoolers can act as powerful persuaders on parental spending, specifically through the use of nagging, pestering, or aggressive …
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How preschoolers learn from television.
This study investigates how preschool aged children learn through television throughout the creation of an original narrative, The Topaz Troop. Children are exposed to an assortment of media devices from an early age, and parents continue to seek out quality educational content to enhance their …
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Marriage, Parenting, and Preschoolers' Socioemotional Functioning
… the relations among marriage, parenting, and preschoolers' socio-emotional functioning. Ninety mothers, fathers, and their three-year-olds participated in this investigation. Mothers and fathers independently completed measures of their marital adjustment and their children's behavior …
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Antecedents and Continuity of Compliance in Preschoolers
<p>Self-regulation, and compliance behavior specifically, has been implicated in the development of successful socialization. Difficulty self-regulating has led to negative outcomes in areas such as academic success and mental health, and a number of possible contributors, such as temperament, …
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Preschoolers' Beliefs About Overt and Relational Aggression
… Aggression Scale was designed to assess preschoolers' normative beliefs about these two types of aggression. Findings about the scale's internal reliability and test-retest reliability are presented. Findings about similarities and differences between beliefs about relational and overt …
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Emotion Knowledge and Relational Aggression in Preschoolers
The preschool years are an important time in a child's emotional development. Children learn how to navigate peer relationships and understand the source of others' emotions, one of the most important tasks of this developmental period. Deficits in emotion knowledge have been linked with increased …
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Screening Preschoolers for Autism with Behavior Rating Scales
… can accurately distinguish between referred preschoolers with autism and referred preschoolers without autism. Parents of 82 preschoolers referred to a nonprofit child development clinic because of behavioral or developmental concerns completed two behavior rating scales as part of the …
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Joint Engagement Behaviors in Preschoolers with Language Impairment
… literature to the sample population of preschoolers with language impairment (LI) by exploring patterns of joint engagement behaviors in this population. A second question asked if joint engagement behaviors were significantly related to performance on language measures. Following …
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Videotape peer-modeling and self-modeling with preschoolers
… peer-modeling and videotape self-modeling of preschoolers who were enrolled in a Day Treatment Program for emotionally and behavioral disturbed children. A multiple baseline design was used. The children received no treatment, viewed a video of a peer engaging in appropriate behavior, then the …
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Treatment Trajectories of Preschoolers with Severe Trauma Exposure
… Participating children were 23 trauma-exposed preschoolers enrolled in a therapeutic preschool to address severe behaviors and mental health problems, many of which may have been trauma-related. Children’s behaviors and symptoms were reported by their therapists and observed by a psychologist …
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Preschoolers' gender assignment to an androgynous storybook character
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Language-specificity and young preschoolers' social-cognitive development
This thesis investigated the role of linguistic access in reference to mental states in children’s social understanding. The importance of access to, or an understanding of, mentalistic language has been stressed regarding the development of children’s social understanding (e.g., Astington & Baird, …
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