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Effects of Multiple Planning Constraints on the Development of Grasp Posture Planning in 6- to 10-Year-Old Children
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Stöckel, Tino; Hughes, Charmayne M. L. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
This experiment examined how multiple planning constraints affect grasp posture planning in 6- to 10-year-old children (n = 16 in each group) by manipulating the intended object end-orientation (left end-down, right end-down) and initial precision demands (standard, initial precision) of a bar transport task. Results indicated that grasp posture…
Descriptors: Human Posture, Psychomotor Skills, Compliance (Psychology), Children
Labels Facilitate Infants' Comparison of Action Goals
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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
Precision and Power Grip Priming by Observed Grasping
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Vainio, Lari; Tucker, Mike; Ellis, Rob – Brain and Cognition, 2007
The coupling of hand grasping stimuli and the subsequent grasp execution was explored in normal participants. Participants were asked to respond with their right- or left-hand to the accuracy of an observed (dynamic) grasp while they were holding precision or power grasp response devices in their hands (e.g., precision device/right-hand; power…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Imitation, Coding, Context Effect
Sequential Analysis of Mastery Behavior in 6- and 12-Month-Old Infants.
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MacTurk, Robert H.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1987
Sequences of mastery behavior were analyzed in a sample of 67 infants 6 to 12 months old. Authors computed (a) frequencies of six categories of mastery behavior, transitional probabilities, and z scores for each behavior change, and (b) transitions from a mastery behavior to positive affect. Changes in frequencies and similarity in organization…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Development, Goal Orientation, Infants
Object Mastery Motivation of Children with Down Syndrome.
Ruskin, Ellen M.; And Others – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1994
Comparison of 40 children with Down's syndrome and typically developing children (matched for mental age) found that the children with Down's syndrome appeared less engaged in a task, as indicated by shorter sequences of goal directed behavior and higher rates of toy rejection. They also displayed less causality pleasure with object exploration…
Descriptors: Children, Downs Syndrome, Goal Orientation, Interests
Research into Practice.
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Bergen, Doris – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 1994
Comments on the articles presented in this issue with respect to their implications for classroom practices. Stresses that in this issue, the researchers describe how social context factors (such as adult viewpoints and adult-child interaction patterns) and physical context factors (such as variations in classroom space-time organization and…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Children, Day Care, Educational Environment