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Bertin, Evelin; Wong, Charlene; Striano, Tricia – Infant and Child Development, 2016
Seven- to 12-month-olds were trained to press levers that contingently activated lights. Infants had the choice of turning on either a light an adult interaction partner was looking at or a light that she turned away from. By 9 months, infants reliably turned on the light that the adult was looking at. In a second study, 9- and 12-month-old…
Descriptors: Infants, Social Cognition, Infant Behavior, Object Manipulation
Smolucha, Larry; Smolucha, Francine – 1988
Synergistic psychology has been proposed as a meta theory for synthesizing different psychological theories into an explanation of how social, cognitive, and biological factors interact in human behavior. The basic theoretical assumption in synergistic psychology is that internalized social interactions become higher mental functions that regulate…
Descriptors: Adults, Art Education, Art Expression, Cognitive Processes