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Object Exploration Is Facilitated by the Physical and Social Environment in Center-Based Child Care
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Ine H. van Liempd; Ora Oudgenoeg-Paz; Paul P. M. Leseman – Child Development, 2025
Object exploration is considered a driver of motor, cognitive, and social development. However, little is known about how early childhood education and care settings facilitate object exploration. This study examined if children's exploration of objects during free play was facilitated by the use of particular spatial components (floor, tables,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Toddlers, Preschool Children, Object Manipulation
The Relation of Unimanual and Bimanual Reaching to Crossing the Midline.
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van Hof, P.; van der Kamp, J.; Savelsbergh, G. J. P. – Child Development, 2002
This study examined the relationship of crossing the midline while reaching for objects to the development of bimanual reaching among infants ages 12, 18, and 26 weeks. Findings indicated that the frequency of two-hand grabbing and the number of midline reaches increased with age; most midline reaches were part of two-handed reaches and occurred…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Eye Hand Coordination, Infants, Motor Development
Adjustment of Reaching to Change in Object Position by Young Infants.
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Willatts, Peter – Child Development, 1979
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Eye Fixations, Infants, Motor Development
Inability of Five-Month-Old Infants To Retrieve a Contiguous Object: A Failure of Conceptual Understanding or of Control of Action?
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Diamond, Adele; Lee, Eun Young – Child Development, 2000
Examined infants' ability to retrieve an object from atop a slightly larger object. Found that even 5-month-olds could retrieve objects close in size and fully contiguous with their bases when demands on reaching skill were reduced. Proposed that when they fail this task, it is because they lack the skill to reach the top object without…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Infant Behavior, Infants, Motor Development
Infants' Hand Preference in a Task Involving Complementary Roles for the Two Hands.
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Ramsay, Douglas S.; Weber, Sherry Lee – Child Development, 1986
Tested infants in their second year with a box task to determine whether they would show a hand preference in solutions involving complete differentiation of roles for the two hands. (HOD)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Infants
The Ability to Negotiate the Environment: An Aspect of Infant Competence as Related to Quality of Attachment.
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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