Going Beyond the Specifics: Generalization of Single Actions, But Not Temporal Order, at 9 Months

Authors

Angela F. Lukowski, University of California-IrvineFollow
Sandra A. Wiebe, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Patricia J. Bauer, Emory UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

6-2009

Comments

Published in Infant Behavior and Development 32:3 (June 2009), pp. 331-335; doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2009.02.004 Copyright © 2009 Elsevier Inc. Used by permission. http://www.elsevier.com/locate/inbede

Abstract

We examined generalization in 9-month-old infants after a 24-hour delay using deferred imitation. Infants flexibly applied their knowledge of sequence actions across changes in props even though they had no opportunity for immediate imitation.