Stages in the development of the object concept

Bower, T. G. R.; Paterson, Jessie

doi:10.1016/0010-0277(72)90044-3

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“…or AB (A not B), error has been replicated in many recent studies (Appel. 1971;Gratch & Landers, 1971;Bower & Paterson, 1972;Evans & Gratch, 1972;Harris, 1973;Gratch et al 19741, and is thus a reliable finding.…”

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Spatial errors made by infants: Inadequate spatial cues or evidence of egocentrism?

Bremner¹

1978

British J of Psychology

105

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Nine month old infants search correctly for an object which they have seen hidden in one position. but cease to do so after they have been moved to the opposite side of the display, searching instead at a position which is apparently defined egocentrically from their experience before movement. This error can be explained on the one hand in terms of response dependence or egocentrism. or on the other hand as due to a lack of adequate spatial cues to allocentric position. In order to distinguish between these hypotheses. 64 nine month old infants were presented with a hidden object problem in which the two alternative positions had covers of different colours. The results show that infants could search correctly for an object in one location although they saw the problem from different sides. This result combines with those of other conditions to indicate that cover colour provides an adequate spatial cue, allowing the infant to specify position allocentrically, provided the correct cover maintains a stable position.

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Spatial errors made by infants: Inadequate spatial cues or evidence of egocentrism?

Bremner¹

1978

British J of Psychology

105

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“…It may be interesting to mention here analogous experiments carried out by Bower and Paterson [1972] on human subjects. Be tween the age of 12 and 16 weeks, the infant shows systematic errors when tracking an ob ject which moves within its visual field.…”

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The Meaning of Object Permanence at Different Zoological Levels

Etienne¹

1984

Human Development

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The nature of the object concept is reviewed at various zoological levels, and special importance is given to the notion of its continued existence. Three fundamentally different types of response to the disappearance of an object are described: (1) on the invertebrate level, stereotyped forms of behavior can either increase or decrease the probability of a further encounter with the same object; (2) certain animals learn to associate a delayed response with the object’s disappearance, but never exhibit anticipatory search in a new situation; (3) higher mammals and certain birds immediately adjust their search to relevant spatial-temporal relationships. It is argued that while the members of species which attain object permanence may differ in certain features of their sensorimotor development, their cognitive ontogeny follows the same basic principles.

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“…Piaget (1954) provided the classic example of this ability in his observation that an infant will search for a hidden object at the location at which it had been previously found, despite seeing the object being hidden at a different location (the Stage IV, A not B error). This result has spurred a great deal of research focusing on the child's conception of objects (e.g., Baillargeon, 1987;Baillargeon, DeVos, & Graber, 1989;Baillargeon & Graber, 1988;Bower & Paterson, 1971;Evans & Gratch, 1972;Gratch, Appel, Evans, LeCompte, & Wright, 1974;Gratch & Landers, 1971) and the child's spatial knowledge (e.g., Aymed & Ruffman, 1998;Benson & Uzgiris, 1985;Bremner, Knowles, & Andreasen, 1994;Butterworth, 1976Butterworth, , 1977Hofstadter & Reznick, 1996;Lucas & Uzgiris, 1977;Smith, Thelen, Titzer, & McLin, 1999). Piaget (1954;Flavell, 1963) assumed that failures in finding this object indicated the limited nature of the child's conception of objects.…”

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The role of visual and body movement information in infant search.

Schmuckler¹,

Tsang-Tong²

2000

Developmental Psychology

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Three experiments investigated the use of visual input and body movement input arising from movement through the world on spatial orientation. Infants between 9 1/2 and 18 months participated in a search task in which they searched for a toy hidden in 1 of 2 containers. Prior to beginning search, either the infants or the containers were rotated 180 degrees; these rotations occurred in a lit or dark environment. These experiments were distinguished by the environmental cues for object location; Experiment 1 used a position cue, Experiment 2 a color cue, and Experiment 3 both position and color cues. Accuracy was better in Experiments 2 and 3 than in Experiment 1. All studies found that search was best after infant movement in the light; all other conditions led to equivalently worse performance. These results are discussed relative to a theoretical characterization of spatial coding focusing on the uses of spatial information.

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Stages in the development of the object concept

Cited by 39 publications

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Spatial errors made by infants: Inadequate spatial cues or evidence of egocentrism?

Spatial errors made by infants: Inadequate spatial cues or evidence of egocentrism?

The Meaning of Object Permanence at Different Zoological Levels

The role of visual and body movement information in infant search.

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