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Rodríguez, Jimena; Salsa, Analía; Martí, Eduardo – Infant and Child Development, 2021
This study examines the impact of manipulation on the performance of 3.5- and 4-year-old children in the Give-N task with concrete representations (sets of bottle caps and pictures of dots) and spoken number words. In this task, children were asked to give a certain number of items (cookies) using the three representational formats. Children were…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Object Manipulation, Task Analysis, Pictorial Stimuli
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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
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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