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Peer reviewedCorrigan, Roberta; Schommer, Marlene – Child Development, 1984
Two experiments assessed the importance of form versus function in 2-year-old infants' categorizations. Nonsense objects were constructed to independently vary form and function. Adults differentially directed subjects' attention to one or the other stimulus dimension. It was hypothesized that children's conceptualizations would vary as a function…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Ability, Infant Behavior, Infants
Peer reviewedHubert, Nancy C.; Wachs, Theodore D. – Child Development, 1985
When 96 mothers and 46 fathers of 6- or 13-month-old infants independently generated behavioral cues they believed contributed to their perception of their infant's recent easiness/difficultness, few systematic differences were found between easy and difficult infants, 6- and 13-month-olds, males and females, and firstborn and later-born.…
Descriptors: Classification, Cues, Definitions, Fathers
Peer reviewedGopnik, Alison; Meltzoff, Andrew – Child Development, 1987
Changes in children's categorization behavior between 15 and 21 months of age and the relation of these changes to developments in language, object permanence, and means-end understanding are reported. (PCB)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Classification, Cognitive Development, Infant Behavior
Peer reviewedKeller, Heidi; Scholmerich, Axel – Developmental Psychology, 1987
Vocalizations of infants were classified and analyzed in a longitudinal sample of infants ranging in age from 2 to 14 weeks. Results suggest that infants performed different types of vocalizations that can be interpreted as affective states from 2 weeks of age on. Parents responded with a highly diversified pattern of reactions to different infant…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Classification, Communication Research, Communication Skills
