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SUMMARY:The role of temperament in attention\, motor and language developm
 ent - Dr. Kate Ellis-Davies\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20130611T120000Z
DTEND:20130611T130000Z
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CONTACT:Nik Darshane
DESCRIPTION:Individual differences in social motivation have long been the
  focus of research into typical and atypical development. Temperament duri
 ng early childhood\, and personality in older children/adults\, have been 
 a key way of conceptualizing trait like variations in this drive to engage
 . Surgency is a trait within temperament scales characterized by responsiv
 eness\, sociability and approach behaviors. As such\, surgency has been of
  particular interest to researchers studying the social motivation and eng
 agement. Examples of questions around social motivation include how early 
 variations in temperament may demonstrate distinct developmental paths\, h
 ow this variation may be seen in atypical populations\, and how temperamen
 t may demonstrate it’s association in the attention\, motor and language
  skills. This presentation will explore the role of surgency in infants’
  cognitive\, motor and language development. Data will be discussed from a
  longitudinal study\, which tracked infants from birth to 18 months with t
 he Continuous Unified Electronic (CUE) diary method (Ellis-Davies et al.\,
  2012). Within the CUE diary method infants’ motor\, cognitive\, and com
 municative development were reported continuously\, alongside researcher a
 dministered assessments and parent-infant interactions. Specifically this 
 presentation will ask whether surgency is associated with the development 
 of social attention\; surgency’s link to the emergence of motor mileston
 es\; and the role surgency may have in early language acquisition. 
LOCATION:PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane)
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