The developmental relationship between infants' exploration and action on slanted surfaces

Marion A. Eppler; Karen E. Adolph; Tamra Weiner

doi:10.1016/S0163-6383(96)90025-9

The developmental relationship between infants' exploration and action on slanted surfaces

Marion A. Eppler, Karen E. Adolph, Tamra Weiner

Psychology

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Abstract

This research provides converging evidence that infants use exploratory activity to differentiate slant around a horizontal axis before they relate information about slant to consequences for locomotion. In Experiment 1, 14-month-old toddlers walked down safe, shallow 10° hills and slid down or avoided risky, steep 36° hills when height of the hills was held constant. Results indicate that judgements were based on slant. In Experiment 2, 9-month-old crawling infants explored shallow 10° and steep 30° slopes differentially in a nonlocomotor task. Exploration was similar to previous locomotor research with full-size hills, even though crawlers plunged head-long over both shallow and steep hills in the earlier study.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	259-264
Number of pages	6
Journal	Infant Behavior and Development
Volume	19
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0163-6383(96)90025-9
State	Published - 1996

Keywords

Crawling infants
Exploration exploratory behavior
Locomotion
Slant perception
Slanted surfaces
Slopes
Walking infants

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Developmental and Educational Psychology

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