| The home environment has a major impact on cognitive development and socioemotional well-being. |
| The winnowing process even has a clinical name: socioemotional selectivity theory, a term coined by Laura L. Carstensen, a psychology professor who is the director of the Stanford Center on Longevity in California. |
| Indians in many places are skilled in the handling of socioemotional problems and, as we saw above, are quite capable of organizing at the local level where there is a felt need for organization. |
| Nevertheless, a modest correlation was identified indicating a linear relation between more time in care and poorer socioemotional adjustment. |
| Comprehensive assessments of attention, memory, intelligence, learning, motor and perceptual functioning, executive functioning and academic achievement as well as socioemotional health are conducted. |
