Index Catalog // ScholarsArchive@OSU

Creator:: Forbes, Charles W.
Abstract:: For gender-related information, previous studies have shown that children of preschool age are more likely to remember schema-consistent information over schema-inconsistent information. In this study, an attempt was made to boost children's recognition for inconsistent information. In order to do this, children were presented with pictures of both gender-consistent and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: unsupported and children did not have a better memory for either type of information. Children in group two

Creator:: Edelbrock, Craig S.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was the development of the Sex Role Learning Index (SERLI), a picture choice instrument for assessing the concepts of sex role discrimination, preference, and confirmation in young children. The SERLI consists of 60 black-and-white line drawings depicting common objects, child activities and adult activities and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ROLE DISCRIMINATION, PREFERENCE, AND CONFIRMATION IN PRE- SCHOOL AGED CHILDREN Abstract approved

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:: Katsurada, Emiko
Abstract:: The purposes of this study were to find out about the associations between hostile attributional bias and aggressive behaviors among preschool-aged children and to identify possible sources of their hostile attributional bias. Seventy-two preschoolers with an average age of 4.76 and their mothers acted as participants. Children's hostile attributional bias...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: many people: children and their mothers who participated in my study as subjects, the director and

Creator:: Pettit, Rebecca Ward
Abstract:: As increasing numbers of poor children enter child care programs due to changes in work requirements under the Welfare Reform Act, there is a critical need to examine factors that may affect the quality of care that these children receive. One factor that has received limited attention in the literature...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: increasing numbers of poor children enter child care programs due to changes in work requirements under the

Creator:: Liang, Shu
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of family size, birth order, socioeconomic status, and parent-child relationships to young children's intellectual development. Seventy-four children, 39 boys and 35 girls, with a mean age of 4 years-8 months, and their parents (mothers and fathers), selected from 9 preschool...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: children in this study were either first-, second- or third-born children. Family socioeconomic status

ScholarsArchive@OSU