Browsing by Subject "infancy"
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04)Many different factors play a role in the development of an infant’s ability to use tools. A previous version of the current study examined active versus observational learning on an infant’s ability to be trained to use ...
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(2016-07-19)Department: PsychologyPrevious research on the development of infant tool use learning in the second year of life has provided contrary evidence as to how infants select among differentially effective tools following independent exploration, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-15)Infants must learn how to use many tools in order to engage in a variety of daily tasks. An unpublished pilot study in our lab suggests that 6.5 to 8.5-month-old infants fixated more on the handle of a familiar tool than ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-08)In a study of infant tool use, Barrett, Davis, and Needham (2007) found that previous experience with spoons prevented infants from utilizing an unusual grasp of a teaspoon to complete a novel task. Infants were, however, ...
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(2013-07-18)Department: PsychologyThis thesis presents three experiments examining 7- to 9-month-old infants’ use of category knowledge of 3-dimensional objects to perceive 2-dimensional exemplars from the same category. In all experiments, infants failed ...