Infant Exuberant Object Play at Home: Immense Amounts of Time-Distributed, Variable Practice

Autor/inn/en	Herzberg, Orit; Fletcher, Katelyn K.; Schatz, Jacob L.; Adolph, Karen E.; Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S.
Titel	Infant Exuberant Object Play at Home: Immense Amounts of Time-Distributed, Variable Practice
Quelle	In: Child Development, 93 (2022) 1, S.150-164 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Herzberg, Orit) ORCID (Fletcher, Katelyn K.) ORCID (Schatz, Jacob L.) ORCID (Adolph, Karen E.) ORCID (Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/cdev.13669
Schlagwörter	Infants; Infant Behavior; Play; Object Manipulation; Child Development; Toys; Learning Processes; Psychomotor Skills; Skill Development; Cognitive Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Spiel; Kindesentwicklung; Toy; Spielzeug; Learning process; Lernprozess; Psychomotorische Aktivität; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Kognitive Entwicklung
Abstract	Object play yields enormous benefits for infant development. However, little is known about natural play at home where most object interactions occur. We conducted frame-by-frame video analyses of spontaneous activity in two 2-h home visits with 13-month-old crawling infants and 13-, 18-, and 23-month-old walking infants (N = 40; 21 boys; 75% White). Regardless of age, for every infant and time scale, across 10,015 object bouts, object interactions were short (median = 9.8 s) and varied (transitions among dozens of toys and non-toys) but consumed most of infants' time. We suggest that infant exuberant object play--immense amounts of brief, time-distributed, variable interactions with objects--may be conducive to learning object properties and functions, motor skill acquisition, and growth in cognitive, social, and language domains. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01