Format:
V, 164 S. : graph. Darst.
ISBN:
0-226-00766-9
Series Statement:
Society for Research in Child Development: Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development 251 = 62,3
Content:
Infants master crawling and walking in an environment filled with varied and unfamiliar surfaces. At the same time, infants' bodies and skills continually change. The changing demands of everyday locomotion require infants to adapt locomotion to the properties of the terrain and to their own physical abilities. This Monograph examines how infants acquire adaptive locomotion in a novel task - going up and down slopes
Content:
Infants were tested longitudinally from their first week of crawling until several weeks after they began walking
Content:
Findings indicate that learning generalized from everyday experience traveling over flat surfaces at home but that learning was specific to infants' typical method of locomotion and vantage point. Moreover, learning was not the result of simple associations between a particular locomotor response and a particular slope. Rather, infants learned to gauge their abilities on-line as they encountered each hill at the start of the trial
In:
no:726
Language:
English
Subjects:
Psychology
Keywords:
Motorische Entwicklung
;
Lernen
URL:
http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=007977224&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
