Learning in the Development of Infant Locomotion

Informationen zum Autor Karen Adolph is the author of Learning in the Development of Infant Locomotion, Volume 62, Number 3, published by Wiley. Klappentext This Monograph presents a new view of locomotor development-the processes involved in acquiring adaptive mobility. We report a longitudinal investigation of infants' ability to adapt movements to variations in the terrain and to changes in their physical capabilities. Zusammenfassung This monograph presents a new view of locomotor development - the processes involved in acquiring adaptive mobility. It reports a longitudinal investigation of infants' ability to adapt movements to variations in the terrain and to changes in their physical capabilities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Abstract v I: Relevance of Infant Locomotion for Understanding Development 1 II: Adaptive Locomotion: Sources of Information and Task Constraints 6 III: Implications of Previous Research and the Purpose of the Current Study 29 IV: Method 34 V: Data Coding 47 VI: Changes in Infants' Ability to Cope With Slopes 57 VII: Developmental Correlates 87 VIII: Individual Differences 99 IX: Understanding Change 107 References 131 Acknowledgments 140 New Paradigms and New Issues: A Comment on Emerging Themes in the Study of Motor Development 141 Bennett L. Bertenthal, Steven M. Boker Toward a Developmental Ecological Psychology 152 Eugene C. Goldfield Discovering the Affordances of Surfaces of Support 159 Eleanor J. Goldfield Contributors 163 Statement of Editorial Policy 164

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• Authors: K Adolph, Karen Adolph, Karen (Carnegie Mellon University Adolph, Karen E. Adolph, Adolph Karen
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2000
• EAN: 9780631224563
• ISBN: 978-0-631-22456-3
• No. of pages: 164
• Series: Monographs of the Society for; Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development; Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development; Monographs of the Society for
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