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Kretch, Kari S.; Adolph, Karen E. – Child Development, 2013
Infants require locomotor experience to behave adaptively at a drop-off. However, different experimental paradigms (visual cliff and actual gaps and slopes) have generated conflicting findings regarding what infants learn and the specificity of their learning. An actual, adjustable drop-off apparatus was used to investigate whether learning to…
Descriptors: Infants, Psychomotor Skills, Infant Behavior, Fear
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Poulin-Dubois, Diane; Polonia, Alexandra; Yott, Jessica – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2013
Two experiments were conducted to determine if infants attribute false beliefs to others when tested with the violation-of-expectancy procedure. In Experiment 1, the false-belief task was administered to 14- and 18-month-old infants. The procedure was identical to the one used by Onishi and Baillargeon (2005), except that two transparent boxes…
Descriptors: Infants, Infant Behavior, Cognitive Development, Beliefs
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Fawcett, Christine; Liszkowski, Ulf – Child Development, 2012
Infants imitate others' individual actions, but do they also replicate others' joint activities? To examine whether observing joint action influences infants' initiation of joint action, forty-eight 18-month-old infants observed object demonstrations by 2 models acting together (joint action), 2 models acting individually (individual action), or 1…
Descriptors: Play, Observation, Infants, Infant Behavior
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Koegel, Lynn Kern; Singh, Anjileen K.; Koegel, Robert L.; Hollingsworth, Jessica R.; Bradshaw, Jessica – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2014
Empirical studies have documented a variety of social abnormalities in infancy that indicate risk for later social and behavioral difficulties. There is very little research illustrating the presence of such behavioral vulnerabilities with frequent repeated measures, and the feasibility of designing interventions for improving social engagement in…
Descriptors: Social Development, Interpersonal Relationship, Infants, Affective Behavior
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Cuevas, Kimberly; Bell, Martha Ann – Child Development, 2014
Individual differences in infant attention are theorized to reflect the speed of information processing and are related to later cognitive abilities (i.e., memory, language, and intelligence). This study provides the first systematic longitudinal analysis of infant attention and early childhood executive function (EF; e.g., working memory,…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Early Childhood Education, Attention, Infants
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Teiser, Johanna; Lamm, Bettina; Böning, Mirjam; Graf, Frauke; Gudi, Helene; Goertz, Claudia; Fassbender, Ina; Freitag, Claudia; Spangler, Sibylle; Teubert, Manuel; Lohaus, Arnold; Schwarzer, Gudrun; Knopf, Monika; Keller, Heidi – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2014
Studies investigating imitation are usually conducted with adult models in Western contexts; therefore, the influence of cultural context and the model's age on infants' imitation is largely unknown. This study assessed deferred imitation in 9-month-old infants from the German middle-class ("N" = 44) and the ethnic group of Nso in rural…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Infants, Infant Behavior, Imitation
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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
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Altvater-Mackensen, Nicole; Grossmann, Tobias – Child Development, 2015
Infants' language exposure largely involves face-to-face interactions providing acoustic and visual speech cues but also social cues that might foster language learning. Yet, both audiovisual speech information and social information have so far received little attention in research on infants' early language development. Using a preferential…
Descriptors: Infants, Infant Behavior, Auditory Perception, Visual Perception
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Lin, Betty; Crnic, Keith A.; Luecken, Linda J.; Gonzales, Nancy A. – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Clinically meaningful behavior problems are thought to be present beginning in the early toddler years, yet few studies have investigated correlates of behavior problems assessed before age 2 years. The current study investigated the direct and interactive contributions of early infant and caregiver characteristics thought to play an important…
Descriptors: Emotional Problems, Behavior Problems, Young Children, Toddlers
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Kitamura, Christine; Panneton, Robin; Best, Catherine T. – Child Development, 2013
The time frame for infants' acquisition of language constancy was probed, using the phonetic variation in a rarely heard accent (South African English) or a frequently heard accent (American English). A total of 156 Australian infants were tested. Six-month-olds looked longer to Australian English than less commonly heard South African accent, but…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Native Speakers, Foreign Countries, Language Variation
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LeRoy, Michelle; Mahoney, Annette; Pargament, Kenneth I.; DeMaris, Alfred – Early Child Development and Care, 2013
This study of 164 married couples examined longitudinal links between parents' perceptions of coparenting support and undermining by spouse at 6 months postpartum and infant behaviour problems at the age of 12 months after controlling for marital quality, individual parenting, and infant temperament. Multiple methods (i.e. parent reports and…
Descriptors: Infant Behavior, Behavior Problems, Parents, Mothers
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White, E. Jayne – Mind, Culture, and Activity, 2013
This article challenges traditional approaches to emotion as a discreet biological or dialectic process in the early years. In doing so the proposition is made that emotion is an answerable social act of meaning-making and self-hood. Inspired by Bakhtinian philosophy, which resists separating emotion from cognition or the individual from their…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Infants, Toddlers, Mathematics Education
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Molnar, Monika; Lallier, Marie; Carreiras, Manuel – Language Learning, 2014
Duration-based auditory grouping preferences are presumably shaped by language experience in adults and infants, unlike intensity-based grouping that is governed by a universal bias of a loud-soft preference. It has been proposed that duration-based rhythmic grouping preferences develop as a function of native language phrasal prosody.…
Descriptors: Infants, Bilingualism, Syntax, Intonation
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Wilcox, Teresa; Alexander, Gerianne M.; Wheeler, Lesley; Norvell, Jennifer M. – Developmental Psychology, 2012
A growing number of sex differences in infancy have been reported. One task on which they have been observed reliably is the event-mapping task. In event mapping, infants view an occlusion event involving 1 or 2 objects, the occluder is removed, and then infants see 1 object. Typically, boys are more likely than girls to detect an inconsistency…
Descriptors: Infants, Gender Differences, Eye Movements, Task Analysis
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Kovack-Lesh, Kristine A.; Oakes, Lisa M.; McMurray, Bob – Infancy, 2012
We examined how infants' categorization is jointly influenced by previous experience and how much they shift their gaze back and forth between stimuli. Extending previous findings reported by K. A. Kovack-Lesh, J. S. Horst, and L. M. Oakes (2008), we found that 4-month-old infants' (N = 122) learning of the exclusive category of "cats" was related…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Classification, Infants, Attention
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