The emergence of representation in search: Understanding the hider as an independent agent |
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Authors: | Kurt W. Fischer Sybillyn Jennings |
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Affiliation: | University of Denver USA |
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Abstract: | Corrigan's results point the way toward a reconceptualization of how the development of representation affects search. The child does not cognitively recreate the invisible displacements of the object. Instead she seems to understand that the hider is an independent agent who can use simple hiding strategies that the child does not directly perceive. This representational skill for search, we propose, is one realization of a general representational capacity that emerges late in the second year. The general capacity is defined structurally as the ability to coordinate two sensorimotor systems into a single skill. Although there seem to be some discontinuities in the emergence of the representational capacity, its development is mostly gradual and continuous. |
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Keywords: | Send requests for reprints to K. W. Fischer Department of Psychology University of Denver Denver CO 80208. |
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