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Lane, Jonathan D.; Harris, Paul L.; Gelman, Susan A.; Wellman, Henry M. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Children and adults often encounter counterintuitive claims that defy their perceptions. We examined factors that influence children's acceptance of such claims. Children ages 3-6 years were shown familiar objects (e.g., a rock), were asked to identify the objects, and were then told that each object was something else (e.g., that the rock…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Physical Characteristics, Young Children, Task Analysis
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O'Hearn, Kirsten; Hoffman, James E.; Landau, Barbara – Developmental Science, 2010
The ability to track moving objects, a crucial skill for mature performance on everyday spatial tasks, has been hypothesized to require a specialized mechanism that may be available in infancy (i.e. indexes). Consistent with the idea of specialization, our previous work showed that object tracking was more impaired than a matched spatial memory…
Descriptors: Genetic Disorders, Object Permanence, Age, Infants
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Shutts, Kristin; Ornkloo, Helena; von Hofsten, Claes; Keen, Rachel; Spelke, Elizabeth S. – Child Development, 2009
Three experiments investigated changes from 15 to 30 months of age in children's (N = 114) mastery of relations between an object and an aperture, supporting surface, or form. When choosing between objects to insert into an aperture, older children selected objects of an appropriate size and shape, but younger children showed little selectivity.…
Descriptors: Object Permanence, Young Children, Experiments, Age Differences
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Bigelow, A. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1990
The relationship between the development of object permanence and early words was studied in three young boys, two totally blind from birth and one severely visually impaired. Subjects acquired early words within the age range for sighted children but their word usage was different. The two blind children were delayed in their development of…
Descriptors: Blindness, Child Development, Concept Formation, Developmental Stages
Colcock, Kristina B. – 1992
This literature review examines the development and early language acquisition of infants with blindness or visual impairments. The paper begins with a history of public perceptions of individuals with visual disabilities, efforts to develop educational programs for them, and legislation supporting these efforts. Review of the literature on early…
Descriptors: Blindness, Child Development, Child Rearing, Educational History