This study focused on the development of a measure of the consumer
preferences of preschool children, the Consumer Preference Test
(CPT). A test-retest procedure was used to obtain a measure of reliability
for the CPT on a sample of 20 Caucasian, middleclass and
above children enrolled in the Child Development...
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship
between social acceptance and observed peer interaction in a select
group of preschool children.
The subjects were 30 children enrolled
in two sessions of a child development laboratory sponsored by the
Department of Family Life at Oregon State University.
The...
The purpose of this study was to extend Klingensmith' (1948)
research, which investigated the child's meaning of "life," as well as
the relationship between animism and anthropomorphism, by employing
a younger group and analyzing for sex differences.
The subjects were 36 Caucasian children, 18 boys and 18 girls,
attending the...
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between
self concept and behavioral understanding in a group of prospective
preschool teachers. The subjects were 64 female college students
enrolled in either an early childhood education or Child Development/
Family Life program. These students had completed most of the...
The purposes of this study were to explore the relationship of
cognitive complexity to norms and sanctions for the traditional family
roles; to investigate intergenerational relationships involving
roles and cognitive structures and to estimate the reliability of
the questions from the Washington Role Inventory regarding norms
and sanctions for the...
The purpose of this study was to test the effectiveness
of two religious education curricula in facilitating measure-able
concrete-to-abstract movement in children's religious
thinking. Subjects for the study were 47 fifth and sixth
grade children enrolled in the Sunday School classes of four
Oregon United Methodist Churches. Twenty-four children who...