10-Month-Olds Visually Anticipate an Outcome Contingent on Their Own Action

Autor/in	Kenward, Ben
Titel	10-Month-Olds Visually Anticipate an Outcome Contingent on Their Own Action
Quelle	In: Infancy, 15 (2010) 4, S.337-361 (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1525-0008
DOI	10.1111/j.1532-7078.2009.00018.x
Schlagwörter	Expectation; Infants; Rewards; Video Technology; Reinforcement; Visual Stimuli; Eye Movements; Infant Behavior + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Expectancy; Erwartung; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Reward; Belohnung; Positive Verstärkung; Augenbewegung
Abstract	It is known that young infants can learn to perform an action that elicits a reinforcer, and that they can visually anticipate a predictable stimulus by looking at its location before it begins. Here, in an investigation of the display of these abilities in tandem, I report that 10-month-olds anticipate a reward stimulus that they generate through their own action: .5 sec before pushing a button to start a video reward, they increase their rate of gaze shifts to the reward location; and during periods of extinction, reward location gaze shifts correlate with bouts of button pushing. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that the infants have an expectation of the outcome of their actions: several alternative hypotheses are ruled out by yoked controls. Such an expectation may, however, be procedural, have minimal content, and is not necessarily sufficient to motivate action. (Contains 2 footnotes, 3 tables, and 5 figures.) (As Provided).
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