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The Goal Trumps the Means: Highlighting Goals is More Beneficial than Highlighting Means in Means-End Training
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Gerson, Sarah A.; Woodward, Amanda L. – Infancy, 2013
Means-end actions are an early-emerging form of problem solving. These actions require initiating initial behaviors with a goal in mind. In this study, we explored the origins of 8-month-old infants' means-end action production using a cloth-pulling training paradigm. We examined whether highlighting the goal (toy) or the means (cloth) was more…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Goal Orientation, Infants, Infant Behavior
Infants' Sensitivity to the Causal Features of Means-End Support Sequences in Action and Perception
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Sommerville, Jessica A.; Woodward, Amanda L. – Infancy, 2005
Current work has yielded differential findings regarding infants' ability to perceptually detect the causal structure of a means-end support sequence. Resolving this debate has important implications for perception-action dissociations in this domain of object knowledge. In Study 1, 12-month-old infants' ability to perceive the causal structure of…
Descriptors: Models, Infants, Perceptual Development, Habituation