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Infant responses and the physical environment
Author(s) -
ULVUND STEIN ERIK
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1984.tb01028.x
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology , variation (astronomy) , analysis of variance , longitudinal study , variance (accounting) , statistics , physics , mathematics , accounting , astrophysics , business
A longitudinal study of infants ( n =23) from 6 to 13 months was made to explore infants' responses to objects high on complexity and responsiveness compared to low‐scored ones, and whether the high‐scored objects were preferred. Further, it was explored to what extent individual differences of the infants represent a source of variation. The results showed that more than 50% of the total variance was accounted for by differences in object qualities, and about 25% by individual differences. High‐scored objects were significantly more often preferred compared to low‐scored ones irrespective of age.