Briony Waite
Biographic Data
| ID | 5379546 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Briony Waite |
| GIVEN NAMES | Briony |
| FAMILY NAME | Waite |
| SIGNATURE | WAITE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-2730-2522 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Case Clozed
Prediction is a central feature of mature language comprehension, but little is known about how and when it develops. This study investigates whether lexical prediction emerges before seven using a novel, naturalistic cloze task. Five and six-year-old children listened to a storybook and occasionally guessed which word might come next. We selected 180 words from the story that were shown to be more or less predictable in a prior cloze norming tas…
Direct caregiver intervention in infant peer social encounters
The extent and nature of direct caregiver intervention in peer social encounters among 12 infants were studied in a day care setting. Interventions were common, with almost half of them solicited by the infants; they tended to concentrate on problematic exchanges and to ignore positive ones; and they appeared to be aimed at fairness and the shaping of acceptable peer behavior. Implications for models of peer social development, for the interdepen…
Presidential Preference and Traditional Family Values
Presidential Preference and Traditional Family Values
Direct caregiver intervention in infant peer social encounters
The extent and nature of direct caregiver intervention in peer social encounters among 12 infants were studied in a day care setting. Interventions were common, with almost half of them solicited by the infants; they tended to concentrate on problematic exchanges and to ignore positive ones; and they appeared to be aimed at fairness and the shaping of acceptable peer behavior. Implications for models of peer social development, for the interdepen…
Case Clozed
Prediction is a central feature of mature language comprehension, but little is known about how and when it develops. This study investigates whether lexical prediction emerges before seven using a novel, naturalistic cloze task. Five and six-year-old children listened to a storybook and occasionally guessed which word might come next. We selected 180 words from the story that were shown to be more or less predictable in a prior cloze norming tas…
Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (1 works) · Comprehension (1 works) · Developmental psychology (1 works) · Family and Disability Support Research (1 works) · Family Support in Illness (1 works) · Family values (1 works) · Interdependence (1 works)