What's in a Mitten?: The Effects of Active Versus Passive Experience on Action Understanding

dc.contributor.advisorWoodward, Amanda Len_US
dc.contributor.authorGerson, Sarah Aen_US
dc.contributor.departmentPsychologyen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2008-10-11T05:34:55Z
dc.date.available2008-10-11T05:34:55Z
dc.date.issued2008-05-28en_US
dc.description.abstractPrior research has shown that young infants understand something about others' goals. This understanding has been developmentally linked to infants' own actions. An open question is what aspects of experience are crucial to action understanding. In the current studies, we sought to examine the relation between experience and action understanding in 3-month-old infants and to investigate the differential effects of active and passive experience. Findings from Study 1 demonstrated a threshold effect: a minimal amount of active experience led to subsequent action understanding. In Study 2, we assessed whether visual experience alone would have the same effect by giving another group of infants matched passive experience. These infants, however, did not reap the same benefits from passive experience. These findings demonstrate that active experience provides important information, above and beyond that which can be gleaned from passive experience, at a time when intention understanding is first emerging.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/8474
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPsychology, Developmentalen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolleddevelopmental psychologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledinfant cognitionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledintentionalityen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledaction understandingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledsocial cognitive developmenten_US
dc.titleWhat's in a Mitten?: The Effects of Active Versus Passive Experience on Action Understandingen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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