What we don't know about what babies know: Reconsidering psychophysics, exploration, and infant behavior

Karen E. Adolph; Mark A. Schmuckler

doi:10.1017/S0140525X23003217

What we don't know about what babies know: Reconsidering psychophysics, exploration, and infant behavior

Karen E. Adolph, Mark A. Schmuckler

Psychology

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Researchers must infer "what babies know" based on what babies do. Thus, to maximize information from doing, researchers should use tasks and tools that capture the richness of infants' behaviors. We clarify Gibson's views about the richness of infants' behavior and their exploration in the service of guiding action - what Gibson called "learning about affordances."

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	e121
Journal	The Behavioral and brain sciences
Volume	47
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X23003217
State	Published - Jun 27 2024

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Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Physiology
Behavioral Neuroscience

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