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Infant Behavior and Development in Relation to Fetal Movement and Habituation.
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Madison, Lynda S.; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Evaluated the relation between fetal activity and postnatal behavior and development by measuring the amount of fetal movement occurring in response to stimulation and the number of stimulus applications necessary for habituation. Preliminary evidence suggests that fetal rate of habituation predicts some aspects of infant behavior and development…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Habituation, Individual Development, Infant Behavior
Three-Month-Old Infants' Categorization of Animals and Vehicles Based on Static and Dynamic Attributes.
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Arterberry, Martha E.; Bornstein, Marc H. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2001
Investigated 3-month-olds' categorization of animals and vehicles based on static and dynamic attributes. Found that regardless of viewing static or dynamic displays, infants showed habituation to varying exemplars from the same category, dishabituated to an exemplar from a novel category, and showed a novelty preference for a novel-category…
Descriptors: Classification, Comparative Analysis, Habituation, Infant Behavior
The Role of Good Form in Young Infants' Perception of Partly Occluded Objects.
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Johnson, Scott P.; Bremner, J. Gavin; Slater, Alan M.; Mason, Uschi C. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2000
Three experiments investigated whether 4-month-olds would attend to and utilize the global configuration ("good form") of a partly occluded, moving object to perceive its unit and coherence behind the occluder. Results indicated that curvature per se provided information in support of completion, in addition to global configuration and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Habituation, Infant Behavior
Precursors to the Development of Intention at 6 Months: Understanding People and Their Actions.
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Legerstee, Maria; Barna, Joanne; DiAdamo, Carolyn – Developmental Psychology, 2000
Examined whether 6-month-olds expect people to behave differently toward persons and inanimate objects. Found that infants habituated to an actor talking to something hidden behind an occluder looked longer at an object, whereas infants habituated to an actor reaching and swiping looked longer at a person. No difference in looking at stimuli was…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Expectation, Habituation
Early Differentiation within the Animate Domain: Are Humans Something Special?
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Pauen, Sabina – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2000
Two experiments investigated whether preverbal infants distinguish between humans and mammals. Study 1 found that 7-, 9-, and 11-month-olds distinguished humans from mammals in an object-examination task. Study 2 found that 7-month-olds but not 5-month-olds showed evidence for category discrimination with the 2-dimensional color photos of toy…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis
Cognitive Functioning in 8- to 18-Month-Old Drug-Exposed Infants.
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Alessandri, Steven M.; Bendersky, Margaret; Lewis, Michael – Developmental Psychology, 1998
Compared cognitive functioning of infants--at 8 and 18 months--with varying levels of prenatal cocaine exposure. Found that, with risk and polydrug exposure controlled, exposure groups did not differ at 8 months on Bayley Scales or recovery to a novel stimulus. Infants with heavy exposure or high environmental risk declined in mental development…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Cocaine, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis