Reviews Bell and Ainsworth's 1972 study and suggests that their main conclusion, that maternal responding implied a reduction in infant crying, was not supported by their data. (JMB)

Cites evidence from the Bell-Ainsworth paper and from other studies which supports the interpretation that Gewirtz and Boyd claims was unjustified. (JMB)

Infants aged 3, 5, and 7 months were shown solid objects and comparable intangible images of objects both within and beyond possible arm's reach. The infants' emotional reactions and reaching behavior in the presence of the image stimuli were found to be very similar to their responses to the solid objects. (Author/JMB)

Verbal interactions of three 2-year-old boys attending a play group were analyzed from videotapes made approximately 8 months apart. During this period, rates of interaction increased significantly, speakers learned to select message content more appropriate to the listener, and participants learned to watch each other more often. (Author/JMB)

Studied the utility of cardiac habituation/response recovery as a measure for assessing infant cerebral asymmetries in auditory perception on a dichotic listening test. (Author/SB)

This article reports two attempts to demonstrate the discrepancy hypothesis prediction that visual fixation time for human infants should be an inverted-U function of the magnitude of discrepancy between a new stimulus and a familiar standard. (Author/JMB)

Two studies, one with two- to three-month-olds and one with six- to eight-month-olds, examined infant preferences for attractive faces. A visual preference technique was used. Infants were shown slides of faces of adult women previously rated for attractiveness. When shown pairs of attractive and unattractive faces, older and younger infants…

This study of the stability of parent behaviors toward toddlers over a 3-week period used both aggregated and nonaggregated data. Comparison of stability correlations indicated higher stabilities for aggregated scores, with the level of stability increasing as scores from additional single sessions were aggregated. (PCB)

Sixty-five infants (mean age of 111 days) who failed to complete a two-day operant-conditioning task were compared with a stratified random sample of those who did on measures of infant temperament and several demographic characteristics. A discriminant-function analysis was performed. (Author/BN)

Studies were designed to test the prediction that spatial search strategies in infants may be influenced by locomotor experience. The pattern of findings suggests that infants with efficient modes of locomotion are more likely than others to profit from the experiences generated by locomotion. (RJC)

Studied the effects of adult intervention on 10-month-old infants' level of attention to objects. The overall duration of infant attention increased during medium intervention when the duration was compared to that of the control group. Low attending infants attended more in medium and high intervention, while high attending infants were…

Responds to Fogel's (1988) concerns about the validity and preferred uses of scaled monadic phases and introduces a note of caution about prematurely concluding that stochastic organization alone is of significance to development. (RH)

Results indicated that (1) fathers who were less involved in child care attributed lesser competence to infants than did more involved fathers; (2) fathers generally attributed lesser competence to infants than mothers did; and (3) as fathers' involvement in infant care increased, their attributions became more similar to mothers'. (RH)