Learning in the Development of Infant Locomotion

by Karen Adolph

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780631224563
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	01/23/1997
Series:	Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development
Edition description:	Volume 62, Number 3
Pages:	164
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.03(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

Karen Adolph is the author of Learning in the Development of Infant Locomotion, Volume 62, Number 3, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

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