Natural Behavior, Volume 66 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors.
There is a long history of studying natural behavior in science. In 1872, Charles Darwin documented his observations on the development of his children in words, which was published in an article titled “A Biographical Sketch of an Infant.” Traditionally, observational studies like this had been viewed as insightful but also criticized as not objective and quantitative. More recently, building on advanced computation, the contemporary approaches to studying natural behavior in the real world delivered quantitative results. New sensing and wearable technologies allow researchers to collect high-density data in everyday contexts. With technological advances, we can scale up and obtain quantitative results from real-world data. This volume contains a collection of papers on studying natural behavior of child development. Those papers aim at understanding and predicting behavior and cognition as it occurs within complex real-world situations. Compared with findings from laboratories, the results derived from natural behavior are remarkably reliable, which provides an answer to the reproducibility crisis in science. Moreover, the findings based on natural behavior can be directly applied to the real world, especially in the health and education domains.
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Table of Contents
PrefaceJeffrey J. Lockman
1. Natural Behavior in Everyday Settings
Catherine S. Tamis-Lamonda, Kristy Lai and Mackenzie Swirbul
2. Designing Museum Exhibits to Support the Development of Scientific Thinking in Informal Learning Environments: A University-Museum-Community Partnership
Cristine Legare
3. Putting the Child in the Driver’s Seat: Insights from Children’s Interactions in Preschool Classrooms
Lynn K. Perry, Sophia A. Meibohm, Madison Drye, Alyssa Viggiano, Celia Romero, Juan Londo�o, Yudong Tao, Daniel S Messinger and Batya Elbaum
4. How Teachers Make Connections among Ideas in Mathematics Instruction
Martha W. Alibali, Rui Meng, Andrea Donovan, Meixia Ding and Amelia Yeo
5. Daylong egocentric recordings in small- and large-scale language communities: A practical introduction
Marisa Casillas and Kennedy Casey
6. Word learning is hands-on: insights from studying natural behavior
Sara E. Schroer and Chen Yu
7. The Operationalization of Coordinated Attention and the Relations to Language Development: A Meta-analysis
Grace M. Steffen, Christian M. Jerry, Christopher Bell, Amanda R. Kolberg, Bhumy Patel and Drew Hamilton Abney
8. NATURAL-ISH BEHAVIOR: The Interplay of culture and context in shaping motor behavior in infancy
Lana Karasik and Scott R. Robinson
9. Stop trying to carve Nature at its joints! The importance of a process-based developmental science for understanding neurodiversity
Hana D’Souza and Dean D’Souza
