TY - JOUR
T1 - Integration of Thought and Action
T2 - Arm Weights Facilitate Search Accuracy in 24-Month-Old Children
AU - Arterberry, Martha E.
AU - Hespos, Susan J.
AU - Herth, Rachel A.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by a Social Sciences Division grant from Colby College (USA) awarded to Martha Arterberry and a National Science Foundation grant (No. BCS-1423917) awarded to Susan Hespos. Rachel Herth was supported by the 2015 Summer Research Opportunity Program at Northwestern University. We thank the members of the Infant Cognition Lab at Northwestern for their help with data collection and coding, in particular Andrea Azem, Genesis Garcia, Jooshim Kim, and John Smith. The authors declare no conflict of interest with respect to this work.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS)
PY - 2018/3/1
Y1 - 2018/3/1
N2 - Search errors are common in cognitive tasks with infants and toddlers, and these errors reveal important insights to the development of competence and performance. Rivière and Lécuyer (2008, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 100, 1) demonstrated that 29-month-olds typically make an error during a search task involving invisible displacement. However, performance improves significantly when children wear weighted wrist bands while doing the task. To investigate this phenomenon further, we tested 24-month-old children in an identical search task (N = 35). Half the children wore weighted wrist bands, and the rest were in a no-weight condition. To test how far this phenomenon generalizes, we also tested the same children in a second search task where they needed to find a ball that had rolled behind one of four doors. The results showed that children in the no-weight condition replicated previous findings of poor performance on both search tasks. Unlike 29-month-olds, the 24-month-olds in the weighted condition did not immediately show improvement on the search tasks. However, after an initial search attempt, children wearing weights performed significantly better than chance. The findings shed new light on the interplay between thought and action.
AB - Search errors are common in cognitive tasks with infants and toddlers, and these errors reveal important insights to the development of competence and performance. Rivière and Lécuyer (2008, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 100, 1) demonstrated that 29-month-olds typically make an error during a search task involving invisible displacement. However, performance improves significantly when children wear weighted wrist bands while doing the task. To investigate this phenomenon further, we tested 24-month-old children in an identical search task (N = 35). Half the children wore weighted wrist bands, and the rest were in a no-weight condition. To test how far this phenomenon generalizes, we also tested the same children in a second search task where they needed to find a ball that had rolled behind one of four doors. The results showed that children in the no-weight condition replicated previous findings of poor performance on both search tasks. Unlike 29-month-olds, the 24-month-olds in the weighted condition did not immediately show improvement on the search tasks. However, after an initial search attempt, children wearing weights performed significantly better than chance. The findings shed new light on the interplay between thought and action.
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U2 - 10.1111/infa.12208
DO - 10.1111/infa.12208
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85028955125
SN - 1525-0008
VL - 23
SP - 173
EP - 193
JO - Infancy
JF - Infancy
IS - 2
ER -