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Rholes, William S.; Walters, Jackie – Child Development, 1982
The study was to determine when the patterns of causal evidence proposed by Orvis, Cunningham and Kelly (1975) begin to function as schemata in the attributional process. One hundred forty-four subjects took part in the study. (RH)
Descriptors: Adults, Attribution Theory, Children, Cognitive Development
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Jacobson, Sandra W.; And Others – Child Development, 1992
Six-month-old African-American infants' expectation of a visual stimulus was related to developmental measures. Reaction time was related to eye fixation in tests that measured visual recognition memory (VRM) and presented objects of different shapes to the infant. Reaction time and infants' stimulus expectation predicted VRM novelty preference.…
Descriptors: Blacks, Cognitive Processes, Expectation, Eye Fixations
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Reznick, J. Steven; Chawarska, Katarzyna; Betts, Stephanie – Child Development, 2000
Two experiments used Visual Expectations Procedure to investigate development of expectations in infants up to 12 months old. Reaction time improved and the percentage of anticipations increased between 6 and 9 months using an alternation pattern or a complex pivot pattern, and between 4 and 8 months when using a left-right alternation or a…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Expectation