Infants' understanding of object movement based on shape.
Published: 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9780494213964
Description: This study explored 8- and 12-month-old infants' abilities to recognize how different shaped objects should move based on their physical properties. Using a violation-of-expectation preferential-looking paradigm, each infant was presented with 4 trials comprised of 2 video displays depicting an expected physical event (a ball rolling or a cube sliding) and an unexpected physical event (a ball sliding or a cube rolling). Eight-month-old infants did not show a preference for either expected or unexpected events---they simply showed a preference for rolling objects over sliding objects. Twelve-month-olds also showed a bias for rolling objects, but more notably they also responded to the expectedness of the event, showing a bias towards unexpected motion over expected motion. These findings are discussed in terms of theories and possible implications.
Notes: Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-03, page: 1680.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2006.

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