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Weir, Catherine; Toland, Cynthia; King, Rose Ann; Martin, Lisa Maas – Infancy, 2005
Social information gathering by infants 6 and 12 months old was examined as a foundation for later social learning that may be uniquely human. Infant performance on a contingency/extinction task was studied following a caregiver demonstration of the contingency on varied reinforcement schedules. Infants who observed caregivers receive any…
Descriptors: Infants, Socialization, Learning Processes, Observation