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Frick, Andrea; Wang, Su-hua – Child Development, 2014
Infants' ability to mentally track the orientation of an object during a hidden rotation was investigated (N = 28 in each experiment). A toy on a turntable was fully covered and then rotated 90°. When revealed, the toy had turned with the turntable (probable event), remained at its starting orientation (improbable event in Experiment 1), or…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Child Development, Cognitive Development
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Colombo, John; And Others – Child Development, 1988
Visual behavior of infants was assessed with multiple discrimination tasks week to week from four to seven months of age. Task to task reliability was low, but attentional averages from week to week were reliable. Generally, infants with shorter fixations showed more novelty preferences, and infants' shift rate improved with age. (SKC)
Descriptors: Attention, Behavior Development, Cognitive Development, Infants
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Amsel, Eric; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Examined 5- to 12-year-olds' judgment regarding the behavior of balance scales and other levers whose arms varied in a causal or a noncausal variable. Results indicated age-related increases in correct judgments about the influence of physical features of objects at an earlier age than about spatial relations between objects. (MOK)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Context Effect