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Publication date: Available online 6 June 2018Source: Advances in Child Development and BehaviorAuthor(s): Jodie M. Plumert, Joseph K. KearneyAbstractA key challenge for the developing perception–action system is learning how to move the self in relation to other moving objects. This often involves perceiving and acting on affordances or possibilities for action that depend on the relation between the characteristics of the individual and the properties of the environment (Gibson, 1979). This chapter overviews our program of research on perceiving and acting on dynamic affordances (i.e., possibilities for action that var...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - July 5, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
A Perception–Action Approach to Understanding Typical and Atypical Motor Development
Publication date: Available online 6 June 2018Source: Advances in Child Development and BehaviorAuthor(s): Jill Whitall, Jane E. ClarkAbstractIn this chapter, we ask two questions. First, can the study of the perception–action system across time offer a useful model for understanding motor development? Second, can the study of the perception–action system in children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) inform our understanding of atypical as well as typical motor development? We begin by describing the dynamical systems perspective and a control-theoretic approach that together provide the conceptual framewo...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - July 5, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Are Different Actions Mediated by Distinct Systems of Knowledge in Infancy?
Publication date: Available online 7 June 2018Source: Advances in Child Development and BehaviorAuthor(s): Peter M. VishtonAbstractThis chapter considers why studies of infant looking and reaching often suggest different patterns of cognitive and perceptual development. In some cases, convergent results have emerged from studies of infant looking and reaching, but differences are common. The most typical results suggest less adult-like perception and cognition in studies of reaching than in studies of looking. Several reaching studies, however, do not fit this pattern, suggesting that reaching actions may be mediated by di...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - July 5, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Are Different Actions Mediated by Distinct Systems of Knowledge in Infancy?
Publication date: Available online 7 June 2018 Source:Advances in Child Development and Behavior Author(s): Peter M. Vishton This chapter considers why studies of infant looking and reaching often suggest different patterns of cognitive and perceptual development. In some cases, convergent results have emerged from studies of infant looking and reaching, but differences are common. The most typical results suggest less adult-like perception and cognition in studies of reaching than in studies of looking. Several reaching studies, however, do not fit this pattern, suggesting that reaching actions may be mediated by disti...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - June 8, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Timing Is Almost Everything: How Children Perceive and Act on Dynamic Affordances
Publication date: Available online 6 June 2018 Source:Advances in Child Development and Behavior Author(s): Jodie M. Plumert, Joseph K. Kearney A key challenge for the developing perception–action system is learning how to move the self in relation to other moving objects. This often involves perceiving and acting on affordances or possibilities for action that depend on the relation between the characteristics of the individual and the properties of the environment (Gibson, 1979). This chapter overviews our program of research on perceiving and acting on dynamic affordances (i.e., possibilities for action that vary ...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - June 7, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
A Perception –Action Approach to Understanding Typical and Atypical Motor Development
Publication date: Available online 6 June 2018 Source:Advances in Child Development and Behavior Author(s): Jill Whitall, Jane E. Clark In this chapter, we ask two questions. First, can the study of the perception–action system across time offer a useful model for understanding motor development? Second, can the study of the perception–action system in children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) inform our understanding of atypical as well as typical motor development? We begin by describing the dynamical systems perspective and a control-theoretic approach that together provide the conceptual framework...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - June 7, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
The Development of Object Fitting: The Dynamics of Spatial Coordination
Publication date: Available online 28 May 2018 Source:Advances in Child Development and Behavior Author(s): Jeffrey J. Lockman, Nicholas E. Fears, Wendy P. Jung Fitting objects into apertures is an adaptive skill that is incorporated into the design of many tools. We match or align shapes with openings when we insert keys into locks, when we put lids atop containers, or when we align a screwdriver with the groove of a screw. Traditionally, the development of object fitting has focused on children's abilities to successfully complete shape sorter tasks (e.g., square peg through square hole). By measuring children's suc...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - May 29, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Physical Growth, Body Scale, and Perceptual-Motor Development
Publication date: Available online 21 May 2018 Source:Advances in Child Development and Behavior Author(s): Karl M. Newell, Michael G. Wade In this chapter we consider from the theoretical framework of the ecological approach to perception and action, the relations between physical growth and body scale in the context of children's perceptual-motor development. Body scale and the timescale of its change through growth are shown to relate to the emergence and dissolution of the fundamental skills in infancy, the perception of what an environment affords functionally for action, together with the emergent pattern of mov...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - May 21, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
The Development of Sensorimotor Intelligence in Infants
Publication date: Available online 21 May 2018 Source:Advances in Child Development and Behavior Author(s): Claes von Hofsten, Kerstin Rosander Infancy is the most dynamic part of human development. During this period, all basic sensorimotor and cognitive abilities are established. In this chapter, we will trace some of the important achievements of this development with a focus on how infants achieve predictive control of actions, i.e., how they come to coordinate their behavior with the ongoing events in the world without lagging behind. With the maturation of the brain, new possibilities that have profound effects ...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - May 21, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Chapter Eight Kin Networks and Mobility in the Transition to Adulthood
Publication date: 2018 Source:Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 54 Author(s): Janel E. Benson, Anastassia Bougakova Family support is critical for launching youth into successful adult lives. Although studies have documented the association between family support and success in the transition to young adulthood, existing work focuses primarily on parental support, giving little attention to extended kin. This narrow definition of family may miss critical exchanges of support, especially among low-income families. Drawing on panel survey data (n =450) and in-depth interviews (n =52) with young women fro...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - February 16, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Chapter Seven Social Influence on Positive Youth Development: A Developmental Neuroscience Perspective
Publication date: 2018 Source:Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 54 Author(s): Eva H. Telzer, Jorien van Hoorn, Christina R. Rogers, Kathy T. Do Susceptibility to social influence is associated with a host of negative outcomes during adolescence. However, emerging evidence implicates the role of peers and parents in adolescents’ positive and adaptive adjustment. Hence, in this chapter we highlight social influence as an opportunity for promoting social adjustment, which can redirect negative trajectories and help adolescents thrive. We discuss influential models about the processes underlying social...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - February 16, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Chapter Six Trends and Divergences in Childhood Income Dynamics, 1970 –2010
Publication date: 2018 Source:Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 54 Author(s): Heather D. Hill Earnings and income variability have increased since the 1970s, particularly at the bottom of the income distribution. Considerable evidence suggests that childhood income levels—captured as average or point-in-time yearly income—are associated with numerous child and adult outcomes. The importance to child development of stable proximal processes during childhood suggests that income variability may also be important, particularly if it is unpredictable, unintentional, or does not reflect an upward trend i...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - February 16, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Chapter Five The Developmental Origins of Dehumanization
Publication date: 2018 Source:Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 54 Author(s): Niamh McLoughlin, Harriet Over Dehumanization is a complex social phenomenon, intimately connected to intergroup harm and neglect. However, developmental research has only recently started to investigate this important topic. In this chapter, we review research in areas closely related to dehumanization including children's intergroup preferences, essentialist conceptions of social groups, and understanding of relative status. We then highlight the small number of recent studies that have investigated the development of this ...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - February 16, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Chapter Four Children's Developing Ideas About Knowledge and Its Acquisition
Publication date: 2018 Source:Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 54 Author(s): Samuel Ronfard, Deborah T. Bartz, Liao Cheng, Xinkui Chen, Paul L. Harris We review key aspects of young children's concept of knowledge. First, we discuss children's early insights into the way that information can be communicated from informant to recipient as well as their active search for information via questions. We then analyze the way that preschool children talk explicitly and cogently about knowledge and the presuppositions they make in doing so. We argue that all children, irrespective of culture and language, ...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - February 16, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Chapter Three Above and Beyond Objects: The Development of Infants ’ Spatial Concepts
Publication date: 2018 Source:Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 54 Author(s): Marianella Casasola Early in development infants form categorical representations of small-scale spatial relations, such as left vs right and above vs below. This spatial skill allows infants to experience coherence in the layout of the objects in their environment and to note the equivalence of a spatial relation across changes in objects. Comparisons across studies of infant spatial categorization offer insight into the processes that contribute to the development of this skill. Rather than viewing contrasting results across...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - February 16, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
