Cortisol reactivity is positively related to executive function in preschool children attending head start

Child Development

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 554-567

  Blair, Clancy ^a   Granger, Douglas ^a   Razza, Rachel Peters ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BLOOD; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EARLY CHILDHOOD INTERVENTION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; METABOLISM; PERSONALITY TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECALL; REFERENCE VALUE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALIVA; STATISTICS;

AROUSAL; ATTENTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURE; EARLY INTERVENTION (EDUCATION); EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; POVERTY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALIVA; STATISTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 19744368690     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2005.00863.x     Document Type: Article

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