The psychology of early growth, including norms of infant behavior and a method of genetic analysis.

Gesell, Arnold; Thompson, Helen; Amatruda, Catherine Strunk

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“…Another methodological advance, important in the establishment of developmental norms, was repeated testing of the same children in a large number of standardised tasks. Gesell took this testing to high art, with highly standardised equipment, structured interviews, and detailed instructions to the testers (Gesell & Thompson, 1938). The point, of course, was to chart developmental changes in a systematic way.…”

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Motor development as foundation and future of developmental psychology

Thelen

2000

International Journal of Behavioral Development

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The study of how infants and children come to control their bodies is perhaps the oldest topic in scientific developmental psychology. Yet, for many years the study of motor development lay dormant. In the last two decades, however, there has been an enormous resurgence of interest. As at the time of the very beginnings of our field, the contemporary study of motor development is contributing both empirically and theoretically to the larger questions in development and especially to our understanding of developmental change. In this essay, I trace the course of the changing fortunes of motor development, evaluate where we have been, what we are doing, and speculate on some critical issues for the future. The purpose of this essay is to comment on the general themes and influences that have been a part of motor development’s “rise-fall-and-rise-again” history. For a more comprehensive review of substantive topic areas in motor development, readers are referred to the authoritative treatment recently published by Bertenthal and Clifton (1998) and to the excellent monograph by Goldfield (1995).

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Section: The Legacy Of Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Motor development as foundation and future of developmental psychology

Thelen

2000

International Journal of Behavioral Development

174

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“…Long before researchers in other areas of development had compiled databases of children's behaviors such as the CHILDES database of children's language, McGraw (1935), Gesell and Thompson (1938), Shirley (1931), and their contemporaries had constructed archival libraries of infants' movements. A century before the recent advent of timebased eye-tracking and brain-imaging techniques with infants, researchers in motor development struggled with the problem of representing and analyzing timebased data.…”

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“…Shirley (1931) described four stages in the development of walking: newborn stepping movements, standing with support, walking when led, and finally walking alone toward the end of the 1st year. Gesell, the consummate list-maker, described detailed series of stages for 40 different motor behaviors-58 stages of grasping a pellet, from newborns' visual regard to toddlers' "plucks pellet with precise pincer prehension" at the finale; 23 stages of crawling, from "passive kneeling" in Stage 1 to crawling on hands and knees in Stage 19; and so on (Ames, 1937;Gesell, 1933Gesell, , 1946Gesell & Thompson, 1938).…”

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Motor Development

Adolph

Berger

2007

Handbook of Child Psychology

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“…A necessidade de que qualquer profissional de saúde que atenda recém-nascido saiba medir e correlacionar corretamente os dados antropométricos é imperiosa, pois neste momento é preciso definir se as medidas do bebê estão ou não dentro dos limites da normalidade 3,4,10,11 . As medidas de crânio utilizadas na prática mé-dica são muitas vezes oriundas de estudos estrangeiros [12][13][14][15][16][17] . Poucos artigos brasileiros trazem estes dados de modo atualizado e com casuística adequada, excetuando-se pela sua importância os estudos de Lefèvre 1,2 .Outro dado importante, são as vias principais de imigração no Brasil.…”

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Antropometria craniana de recém-nascidos normais

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Melo

Burak

et al. 2004

Arq. Neuro-Psiquiatr.

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RESUMO -Objetivo:Foram realizadas medidas antropométricas de recém-nascidos (RN) baianos, para definir medidas condizentes com a realidade desta região. Método: Estudo tipo corte transversal em bebês de termo e normais com as medidas de perímetro cefálico, distância biauricular, distância anteroposterior, tamanho da fontanela e índice cefálico. Resultados: Foram avaliados 388 bebês, sendo 204 (52,6%) masculinos e 184 (47,4%) femininos. O perímetro cefálico variou entre 31,0 e 38,0 cm, com média de 34,4 ± 1,2. O índice cefálico variou entre 0,75 e 1,06, com média de 0,91 ± 0,05. Conclusão: As medidas antropométricas são aferidas visando à detecção precoce de anomalias. Possivelmente, estas medidas podem ser influenciadas por fatores raciais; no entanto, as medidas realizadas no Brasil em geral seguem valores de autores estrangeiros. Assim, o estudo mostra dados de uma região nordestina e salienta a importância da realização de estudos multicêntricos.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: perímetro cefálico, distância biauricular, índice cefálico, recém-nascido, medidas antropométricas, fontanela. The anthropometric measures are surveyed aiming at precocious detention of anomalies. Possibly, these measures can be influenced by racial factors; however, the measures carried through in Brazil follow values of foreign authors. Thus, the study shows data of a Northeastern region and points out the importance of the accomplishment of multicentric studies. Anthropometric cranial measures of normal newborn ASTRACT -

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The psychology of early growth, including norms of infant behavior and a method of genetic analysis.

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Motor development as foundation and future of developmental psychology

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