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Mash, Clay; Bornstein, Marc H.; Banerjee, Abhilasha – Developmental Psychology, 2014
This research examined the development of adaptive generalization in infants' object-directed actions. Infants ages 9 and 12 months participated in an object manipulation task with stimulus objects from 2 categories that differed in shape and weight and that bore a consistent shape or weight correspondence. Weight differences between…
Descriptors: Infants, Object Manipulation, Child Development, Generalization
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Scott, Rose M.; Baillargeon, Renee; Song, Hyun-joo; Leslie, Alan M. – Cognitive Psychology, 2010
Reports that infants in the second year of life can attribute false beliefs to others have all used a "search" paradigm in which an agent with a false belief about an object's location searches for the object. The present research asked whether 18-month-olds would still demonstrate false-belief understanding when tested with a novel "non-search"…
Descriptors: Infants, Generalization, Toddlers, Attribution Theory