A 56-item questionnaire concerning infants' development was administered to 239 older adolescents (119 males, 120 females) to determine their understanding of the emergence of motor, cognitive, language, and personal-social behaviors. Analyses of variance indicated that subjects deviated significantly farther from the normative score on their expectations for cognitive and personal behaviors than on motor or language behaviors. Infants' perceived sex did not contribute to any over-all significant differences in their ratings.
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