Is agency skin-deep? Surface attributes influence infants' sensitivity to goal-directed action
| dc.contributor.author | Guajardo, J. J. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Woodward, Amanda | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2007-03-23T20:13:13Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2007-03-23T20:13:13Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2004 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Three studies investigated the role of surface attributes in infants’ identification of agents, using a habituation paradigm designed to tap infants’ interpretation of grasping as goal directed (Woodward, 1998). When they viewed a bare human hand grasping objects, 7- and 12-month-old infants focused on the relation between the hand and its goal. When the surface properties of the hand were obscured by a glove, however, neither 7- nor 12-month-old infants represented its actions as goal directed (Study 1). Next, infants were shown that the gloved hands were part of a person either prior to (Study 2) or during (Study 3) the habituation procedure. Infants who actively monitored the gloved person in Study 2 and older infants in Study 3 interpreted the gloved reaches as goal directed. Thus, varying the extent to which an entity is identifiable as a person impacts infants’ interpretation of the entity as an agent. | en |
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| dc.identifier.citation | Guajardo, J. J., & Woodward, A. L. (2004). Is agency skin-deep? Surface attributes influence infants' sensitivity to goal-directed action, Infancy , 6, 361-384. | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1525-0008 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/4346 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. | en |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | College of Behavioral & Social Sciences | en_us |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | Psychology | en_us |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | Digital Repository at the University of Maryland | en_us |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) | en_us |
| dc.rights.license | Contact publisher for permission to use or reprint (http://www.erlbaum.com/). | |
| dc.subject | infants | en |
| dc.subject | habituation | en |
| dc.subject | surface attributes | en |
| dc.subject | goal-directed grasping | en |
| dc.subject | infant development | en |
| dc.title | Is agency skin-deep? Surface attributes influence infants' sensitivity to goal-directed action | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |