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Direct linkCallaghan, Tara C.; Rochat, Philippe; MacGillivray, Tanya; MacLellan, Crystal – Child Development, 2004
Social precursors to symbolic understanding of pictures were examined with 100 infants ages 6, 9, 12, 15, and 18 months. Adults demonstrated 1 of 2 stances toward pictures and objects (contemplative or manipulative), and then gave items to infants for exploration. For pictures, older infants (12, 15, and 18 months) emulated the adult's actions…
Descriptors: Infants, Socialization, Observational Learning, Pictorial Stimuli
Rakison, David H. – Developmental Psychology, 2006
In 3 experiments, the author investigated 16- to 20-month-old infants' attention to dynamic and static parts in learning about self-propelled objects. In Experiment 1, infants were habituated to simple noncausal events in which a geometric figure with a single moving part started to move without physical contact from an identical geometric figure…
Descriptors: Infants, Experiments, Visual Learning, Geometric Concepts
