Postural and Object-Oriented Experiences Advance Early Reaching, Object Exploration, and Means-End Behavior

The effects of 3 weeks of social (control), postural, or object-oriented experiences on 9- to 21-week-old infants' (N = 42) reaching, exploration, and means—end behaviors were assessed. Coders recorded object contacts, mouthing, fingering, attention, and affect from video. Postural and object-o...

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Published in:Child development 2008-11, Vol.79 (6), p.1869-1890
Main Authors: Lobo, Michele A., Galloway, James C
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Arm
Babies
Biological and medical sciences
Child Development
Development
Developmental psychology
Effects
Empirical Articles
Experiential learning
Exploratory Behavior
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Hand Strength
Hands
Humans
Infancy
Infant
Infant Behavior
Infants
Information Processing
Knowledge Level
Legal objections
Male
Mental Processes
Newborn. Infant
Parents
Posture
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Social Experience
Social interaction
Time Factors
Toys
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Summary:The effects of 3 weeks of social (control), postural, or object-oriented experiences on 9- to 21-week-old infants' (N = 42) reaching, exploration, and means—end behaviors were assessed. Coders recorded object contacts, mouthing, fingering, attention, and affect from video. Postural and object-oriented experiences advanced reaching, haptic exploration of objects, and developing means—end behavior compared to social experience. Object-oriented experience best-advanced means—end behavior. The results suggest that the development of novel behaviors is dependent on multiple subsystems and can be similarly advanced by addressing a variety of these subsystems. They also suggest that pat experiences with active object exploration can facilitate early information processing and the development of early knowledge.
ISSN:0009-3920
1467-8624
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01231.x