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Babik, Iryna; Galloway, James Cole; Lobo, Michele A. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Early exploratory behaviors have been proposed to facilitate children's learning, impacting motor, cognitive, language, and social development. This study related the performance of behaviors used to explore oneself to behaviors used to explore objects, and then related both types of exploratory behaviors to motor, language, and cognitive measures…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Motor Development
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Parr, Morgan N. Di Napoli; O'Neal, Elizabeth E.; Zhou, Shiwen; Williams, Breanna; Butler, Katherine M.; Chen, Andy; Kearney, Joseph K.; Plumert, Jodie M. – Developmental Psychology, 2023
This investigation examined whether the mode of locomotion matters in how 8-, 10-, 12-, and 14-year-old children (N = 91) judge dynamic affordances in a complex perception-action task with significant safety risks. The primarily European American children in the sample came from the area of Iowa City, Iowa and were balanced for gender. The same…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Physical Activities, Affordances
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West, Kelsey L.; Fletcher, Katelyn K.; Adolph, Karen E.; Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Infants learn nouns during object-naming events--moments when caregivers name the object of infants' play (e.g., ball as infant holds a ball). Do caregivers also label the actions of infants' play (e.g., roll as infant rolls a ball)? We investigated connections between mothers' verb inputs and infants' actions. We video-recorded 32 infant-mother…
Descriptors: Mothers, Infants, Child Behavior, Verbs