TY - JOUR
AU - Doxsey, Pamela A.
AB - Three studies with 53 6–10 mo old infants tested T. G. Bower's (1974, 1975) conjecture that infants' Stage IV object permanence difficulties can be attributed to their interpretation of occlusion as replacement. In Study 1, several types of barriers (upright screen, inverted cup, upright box, cloth) were used in a standard object permanence procedure. Results partially support an order of difficulty predicted by Bower's explanation. Ss were consistently delayed, however, in retrieving objects from inside the upright box. Study 2 investigated the role of previous training and found no effect. When barrier size was varied in Study 3, only the smaller box had the lower successful retrieval rate. Measures of looking and mode of manual search indicated that Ss looked appropriately but did not know how to search inside the small box. An argument is made for standardizing barriers and for measuring looking and searching patterns as well as successful retrieval in object permanence studies. (8 ref)
TI - Characteristics of hiding places and the transition to Stage IV performance in object permanence tasks
JF - Developmental Psychology
DO - 10.1037/0012-1649.18.5.671
DA - 1982-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-psychological-association/characteristics-of-hiding-places-and-the-transition-to-stage-iv-WRiqK09AyI
SP - 671
EP - 681
VL - 18
IS - 5
DP - DeepDyve
ER -