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Burling, Joseph M.; Yoshida, Hanako – Child Development, 2019
Manual skills slowly develop throughout infancy and have been shown to create clear views of objects that provide better support for visually sustained attention, recognition, memory, and learning. These clear views may coincide with the development of manual skills, or that social scaffolding supports clear viewing experiences like those…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Infants, Skill Development, Attention Control
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Karasik, Lana B.; Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S.; Adolph, Karen E. – Child Development, 2011
Associations between infants' transition to walking and object activities were examined. Fifty infants were observed longitudinally during home observations. At 11 months, all infants were crawlers; at 13 months, half became walkers. Over age, infants increased their total time with objects and frequency of sharing objects with mothers.…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Object Manipulation, Infants, Sharing Behavior
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Samuels, Helen R. – Child Development, 1980
When older siblings were present with infants and their mothers in the backyard of a private home, the infants went further from their mothers, traversed a larger area of the yard, left their mothers more quickly, and stayed away longer. (RH)
Descriptors: Infant Behavior, Infants, Influences, Mothers
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Cassidy, Jude – Child Development, 1986
Explores the relation between the infant's ability to negotiate the environment and the quality of the infant-mother attachment relationship. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Attachment Behavior, Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns