Merrill-Palmer Quarterly articles from October 2002

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly archives from October 2002

Attachment security and the problem-solving behaviors of mothers and children.
October 1, 2002... Attachment security may predict the development of competence by influencing how preschoolers solicit and receive help from their mothers during shared problem solving. Based on attachment and help-seeking literatures, we expected that...

Maternal monitoring and rules as correlates of children's social adjustment.
October 1, 2002... Maternal monitoring and play rules were examined as correlates of children's friendship quality, social behavior, and depression in 6th grade (N = 88). Maternal reports of rules were categorized into three types: supervision rules, peer rules,...

Children's understanding of self-presentational behavior: links with mental-state reasoning and the attribution of embarrassment.
October 1, 2002... The present study addresses primary school children's cognition about self-presentational behavior (i.e., behavior designed to shape others' evaluations of the self). In Experiment 1 of the present study, 48 6- to 11-year-olds provided...

Infants' spontaneous imitation of novel versus familiar words: relations to observational and maternal report measures of their lexicons.
October 1, 2002... To explore whether imitation of novel behaviors might serve as a lexical acquisition strategy for some infants, relations between infants' early spontaneous reproduction of novel and of familiar words and their subsequent lexicons were compared...

Biases in reasoning about the consequences of psychogenic bodily reactions: domain boundaries in cognitive development.
October 1, 2002... Three studies investigated the scope of children's difficulty with mind-body interactions by asking them to reason about the consequences of psychogenic bodily reactions, that is, ailments or physiological responses with origins in the mind...