Infants' Processing of Causal and Noncausal Events at 3.5 Months of Age |
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Authors: | Stéphan Desrochers |
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Institution: | Université Laval , Quebéc , Canada |
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Abstract: | Infants' processing of causal (direct launching) and noncausal (delayed reaction, launching without collision) events was investigated with 30 infants who were 3.5 months old. The habituation-dishabituation technique was used. Results showed that the infants did not process direct launching as causal. However, their pattern of responding revealed a tendency to key on the spatial and temporal properties of the events. Those findings are discussed in terms of their compatibility with a modular, an information-processing, and a Piagetian framework. |
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