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Learning from others in nine- to 18-month-old infants
By Ann Robinson of the Early Childhood Unit, National
Children's Bureau,
Nursery World,
18 May 2006
Learning from others in nine- to 18-month-old infants. Infants aged nine, 14, and 18 months in the United States were placed in problem-solving situations, where the experimenter gave hints and demonstrated the solution when the infant made a request (eg pointing), or was unable to solve the problem. Their success, sensitivity to the adult's hints, and communicative gestures were analysed. Older infants had better success in solving problems, although they exhibited difficulties in solving the simplest task compared with the younger infants. Moreover, 14- and 18-month-olds were more sensitive to the adult's demonstrations and used them as cues to solve...
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