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Direct linkCallaghan, Tara C.; Rochat, Philippe; MacGillivray, Tanya; MacLellan, Crystal – Child Development, 2004
Social precursors to symbolic understanding of pictures were examined with 100 infants ages 6, 9, 12, 15, and 18 months. Adults demonstrated 1 of 2 stances toward pictures and objects (contemplative or manipulative), and then gave items to infants for exploration. For pictures, older infants (12, 15, and 18 months) emulated the adult's actions…
Descriptors: Infants, Socialization, Observational Learning, Pictorial Stimuli
Peer reviewedMumme, Donna L.; Fernald, Anne – Child Development, 2003
Two studies investigated whether 10- and 12-month-olds can use televised emotional reactions to guide their behavior. Findings indicated that 12-month-olds avoided the target object and showed increases in negative affect after observing an actress orient toward a novel object with negative affect, but their responses to positive versus neutral…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Emotional Response, Infant Behavior, Infants
Effects of Modeling Action Sequence on the Play of Twelve, Fifteen, and Nineteen-Month-Old Children.
Peer reviewedFenson, Larry; Ramsay, Douglas S. – Child Development, 1981
Examined the relation between the spontaneous occurrence in play of simple two-part action sequences and the frequency of these sequences and their components following modeling at 12, 15, and 19 months of age. Play following modeling was typically more advanced but only 19-month-old children generally were able to imitate complete sequences.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Infants
Peer reviewedParton, David A. – Child Development, 1976
Theories of imitation learning are examined regarding their account of how the infant acquires the ability to emit a response which resembles a response previously exhibited by another. The role of cognition in imitation learning theory is discussed. (BRT)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Imitation, Infant Behavior, Infants
Peer reviewedBahrick, Lorraine E. – Child Development, 2002
Investigated the extent to which 3.5-month-old infants trained in amodal auditory-visual relations between falling objects and the sounds they made could generalize their intermodal knowledge to a new task and across events. Found that infants tested with familiar events and with events of a new color or shape showed learning and transfer…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Infants, Learning Modalities, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedRakison, David H.; Poulin-Dubois, Diane – Child Development, 2002
Four studies examined 10- to 18-month-old infants' ability to detect and encode correlations among features in a motion event. Findings indicated that the youngest infants process static features in an event independently but do not process correlations among dynamic features; the oldest detect correlations between all three features when the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Infants, Learning Modalities
Peer reviewedMeltzoff, Andrew N. – Child Development, 1988
Investigates ability of nine-month-old infants to imitate simple actions with novel objects. Looks at both immediate and deferred imitation. Findings show that imitation in early infancy can span wide enough delays to be of potential service in social development. (Author/RWB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Imitation, Infant Behavior
