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Tacke, Nicholas F.; Bailey, Lillian S.; Clearfield, Melissa W. – Infant and Child Development, 2015
Infants change their behaviours in accordance with the objects they are exploring. They also tailor their exploratory actions to the physical context. This selectivity of exploratory actions represents a foundational cognitive skill that underlies higher-level cognitive processes. The present study compared the development of selective exploratory…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Infants, Infant Behavior, Behavior Change
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Gerson, Sarah A.; Woodward, Amanda L. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2014
Understanding the actions of others depends on the insight that these actions are structured by intentional relations. In a number of conceptual domains, comparison with familiar instances has been shown to support children's and adults' ability to discern the relational structure of novel instances. Recent evidence suggests that this process…
Descriptors: Infants, Infant Behavior, Goal Orientation, Comparative Analysis