Retrieval Order Variation in a Deferred Imitation Task: Assessment of Item-Relational Information Processing among Infants

Autor/inn/en	Kressley, Regina A.; Knopf, Monika; Stefanova, Mariana P.
Titel	Retrieval Order Variation in a Deferred Imitation Task: Assessment of Item-Relational Information Processing among Infants
Quelle	In: Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention, 4 (2007) 3, S.586-598 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1554-4893
Schlagwörter	Recall (Psychology); Imitation; Infants; Cognitive Processes; Memory; Cognitive Development; Socialization; Stimuli; Responses; Coding; Developmental Stages + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Abberufung; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Gedächtnis; Kognitive Entwicklung; Socialisation; Sozialisation; Anreizsystem; Codierung; Programmierung
Abstract	Recent deferred imitation experiments are shedding new light onto the development of declarative memory during early infancy and revealing interesting new facets, for example, that infants process novel information on more than one level. In the current study with 13-month-old infants we examined relational information processing of novel, unrelated events with a deferred imitation task. Participants saw an experimenter perform specific actions with multiple objects and their imitation of actions was assessed after 30-minutes using identical and altered object orders. Only infants who received objects during recall in the identical order as seen during the demonstration exhibited significant recall for actions. This pattern of results was corroborated by an analysis of response latencies. The current study confirmed that infants encode information about novel events on more than one level and that there appears to be a developmental shift between 11- and 13-months of age with regard to information processing. Because various infancy research methods demonstrate successful application in clinical populations (Gerhardstein, Kraebel, & Tse, 2006; Rovee-Collier & Cuevas, 2006), and imitation in particular (i.e. Baer, Petersen, & Sherman, 1967; Nadel, 2002), new data from deferred imitation studies can be of potential value for work in clinical and therapeutic settings. (Contains 1 table and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10