Active Experience Shapes 10‐Month‐Old Infants' Understanding of Collaborative Goals. (8th May 2012)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Active Experience Shapes 10‐Month‐Old Infants' Understanding of Collaborative Goals. (8th May 2012)
- Main Title:
- Active Experience Shapes 10‐Month‐Old Infants' Understanding of Collaborative Goals
- Authors:
- Henderson, Annette M. E.
Wang, Ying
Matz, Lauren E.
Woodward, Amanda L. - Abstract:
- <abstract abstract-type="main" xml:lang="en"> <title> <x xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <p>Collaborative activities in which individuals coordinate their actions to attain a common goal play a fundamental role in our everyday lives. Evidence suggests that infants engage in collaborative activities before their first birthday; however, little is known about infants' understanding of collaborative action. Using a visual habituation paradigm, this research consists of two experiments designed to investigate whether 10‐month‐olds understand that the actions of collaborative partners are critical to the attainment of a common goal. The results of Experiment 1 suggest that 10‐month‐olds represent the actions of collaborating partners in terms of a common collaborative goal only after receiving active experience with a collaborative activity. Experiment 2 demonstrated that infants who received active experience with a collaborative activity viewed active engagement in a collaboration as being critical for an individual's actions to be interpreted as being directed towards a collaborative goal. Together, these findings demonstrate that 10‐month‐olds exhibit an understanding of the shared nature of collaborative goals after a highly salient experience with the activity. Identifying the effects of experience on infants' understanding of collaborative goals in a laboratory context provides insights into the role that experiences in their everyday lives might play in their<abstract abstract-type="main" xml:lang="en"> <title> <x xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <p>Collaborative activities in which individuals coordinate their actions to attain a common goal play a fundamental role in our everyday lives. Evidence suggests that infants engage in collaborative activities before their first birthday; however, little is known about infants' understanding of collaborative action. Using a visual habituation paradigm, this research consists of two experiments designed to investigate whether 10‐month‐olds understand that the actions of collaborative partners are critical to the attainment of a common goal. The results of Experiment 1 suggest that 10‐month‐olds represent the actions of collaborating partners in terms of a common collaborative goal only after receiving active experience with a collaborative activity. Experiment 2 demonstrated that infants who received active experience with a collaborative activity viewed active engagement in a collaboration as being critical for an individual's actions to be interpreted as being directed towards a collaborative goal. Together, these findings demonstrate that 10‐month‐olds exhibit an understanding of the shared nature of collaborative goals after a highly salient experience with the activity. Identifying the effects of experience on infants' understanding of collaborative goals in a laboratory context provides insights into the role that experiences in their everyday lives might play in their understanding of collaboration.</p> </abstract> … (more)
- Is Part Of:
- Infancy. Volume 18:Number 1(2013:Jan./Feb.)
- Journal:
- Infancy
- Issue:
- Volume 18:Number 1(2013:Jan./Feb.)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 18, Issue 1 (2013)
- Year:
- 2013
- Volume:
- 18
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2013-0018-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 10
- Page End:
- 39
- Publication Date:
- 2012-05-08
- Subjects:
- Infant psychology -- Periodicals
Infants -- Development -- Periodicals
Infants -- Periodicals
155.42205 - Journal URLs:
- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1532-7078 ↗
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2012.00126.x ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1525-0008
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