title: Object orientedness: the person or the thing.
abstract: Infant observation indicated that there is an individual variation in development characterized by orientedness either toward the animate or toward the inanimate world. These variants, which are manifest as early as the second month of life, influence the surrounds, the continuing developmental processes, and certain aspects of character formation. Each variation in orientedness evokes a preferred way of processing percepts and situations.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002668:Child Rearing; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D009769:Object Attachment; D010553:Personality Development; D011247:Pregnancy; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011582:Psychological Theory; D012737:Sex Factors; D012931:Social Environment; D014429:Twins, Dizygotic; D014430:Twins, Monozygotic