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Creator:: Kozick, Stephanie A.
Abstract:: This study examined the effects of stage of preoperational thought, sex and mode of exploration on preschoolers ability to represent a small-scale model configuration of objects. Forty-eight subjects between the ages of 2 years, 5 months and 5 years, 4 months were classed in spatial conceptualization as either Stage I...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: children in small-scale space AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Stephanie A. Kozick for the degree of Doctor

Creator:: Doescher, Susan M.
Abstract:: This study investigated the impact of prosocial classroom and home learning programs on children's prosocial behavior. More specifically, it determined the influences of adult modeling and encouragement in these programs on children's cooperating, sharing, and helping behaviors immediately following the six-week intervention programs, and six weeks after the programs' termination....
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Severeide, Rebecca C.
Abstract:: Prior to this investigation few studies had looked at the impact of equipment design on the creative thinking of young children while they solved problems. Nor had previous studies provided support for a clear link between creative thinking and problem solving. An original piece of problem solving equipment incorporating creative...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: of young children in a problem solving situation An Abstract of the Thesis of Rebecca C. Severeide

Creator:: Lin, Kowhei Sophia
Abstract:: This study had two major purposes. The first focused upon understanding the development of aspects of ethnic development among 4- and 7-year-old Chinese-American boys and girls from immigrant and non-immigrant families. The second focused upon understanding the contribution of selected parental (fathers' and mothers') characteristics on aspects of children's ethnic...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: -American Children by Kowhei Sophia Lin A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial

Creator:: Pennington, Darren C.
Abstract:: Recent peer relations studies that have included parents as subjects have pointed to supporting behaviors performed by parents and their role in the development of children's peer relations. Findings from these studies have been similar to explanations of expectation effects. That is, expectation holders support their expectations by behaving in...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: whose children were enrolled in two university-based child development preschool programs. Findings

Creator:: Bullock, Janis R.
Abstract:: Traditional studies of parent-child relationships have focused on the influence of parental characteristics on various behavioral, social, and personality outcomes in children. During the past decade, social scientists have suggested that other influences of the social worlds of individuals be studied. As a result, the parent-child system is being studied...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Cho, Bokhee
Abstract:: This study examined the relationships among authoritarian parental attitudes, home environments, parental attitudes toward the children's freedom, and the cognitive performances of kindergarten children. Socioeconomic status of the family and sex of child and parent differences were also examined. Subjects consisted of 73 pairs of Korean parents and their children....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Korean Kindergarten Children by Bokhee Cho A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial

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