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Levitt, Mary J.; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1984
Under equivalent task conditions, assessed object and person concept attainment in securely and insecurely attached infants. Subjects were 16 male and 23 female infants from middle class families. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Concept Formation, Infant Behavior, Infants
Lingle, Kathleen M.; Lingle, John H. – 1978
A study was conducted to investigate the degree to which both object familiarity and motivational factors influence infants' search behavior in an object permanence test. Infants' search behavior for an unfamiliar test object was compared with search behavior for (a) an experientially familiar object that each infant had played with daily for a…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attachment Behavior, Examiners, Infant Behavior
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Peter Hobson, R.; Patrick, Matthew P. H.; Crandell, Lisa E.; Garcia Perez, Rosa M.; Lee, Anthony – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2004
Background and method: The aim of this study was to examine whether a mother's sensitivity towards her one-year-old infant is related to the infant's propensity to engage in "triadic" relations--that is, to orientate to an adult's engagement with objects and events in the world, for example in sharing experiences with an adult. In order to…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Object Permanence, Socioeconomic Status, Mothers
Rinkoff, Robert F. – 1975
This study measured infant responses to mother and stranger as a function of mother and stranger distance. A group of 10-month-old infants were pretested for level of object permanence and person permanence, and 18 males and 18 females were chosen as study participants. The infants were randomly assigned to one of three treatment groups: (1)…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Distance, Emotional Response, Infant Behavior