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Effects of Mother‐Infant Social Interactions on Infants' Subsequent Contingency Task Performance
Author(s) -
Dunham Philip,
Dunham Frances
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
child development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.103
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1467-8624
pISSN - 0009-3920
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1990.tb02821.x
Subject(s) - psychology , contingency , developmental psychology , task (project management) , contingency management , social relation , child development , cognitive psychology , social psychology , philosophy , linguistics , management , psychiatry , economics , intervention (counseling)
20 3‐month‐old infants participated in a nonsocial contingency task immediately following a social interaction with their mothers. A measure of the time the dyads spent in a state of vocal turn‐taking predicted individual differences in the infants' subsequent performance on the contingency task. These results parallel the social transfer effects we reported earlier in which the turn‐taking dimension of social structure was experimentally manipulated to assess its effect on a subsequent nonsocial contingency task.