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EXAMINATION AND SEARCH IN INFANTS
Author(s) -
HARRIS P. L.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1971.tb02060.x
Subject(s) - psychology , visual search , developmental psychology , object (grammar) , cognitive psychology , artificial intelligence , computer science
Infants aged 8 months and 1 year were compared in their search for an object following visual presentation, for various intervals of time, either with or without manual contact. The major finding was that if manual contact was allowed, the younger infants searched as persistently as older infants. If the object was only seen prior to its disappearance, the younger group searched much less persistently. The findings are related to the development of an ability to relate visual and manual information; attention is drawn to the advantages of a new dependent variable ‘persistence of search’ as compared with the usual two‐fold classification of ‘search’ v. ‘no search’.