Concordance of visual and manipulative responses to novel and familiar stimuli: a reply to Rubenstein (1974).
Rubenstein's failure to find evidence for the previously suggested lack of concordance between visual and manipulative responses to novel and familiar stimuli in 6-month-old infants is discussed. It is shown that a lack of concordance is not specific to the use of 1 measure of manipulative behavior, and other possible explanations for the discrepancy in findings are examined. A 2-stage development of responsiveness to familiarity-novelty in infancy remains the most plausible account.
D000367:Age Factors; D001288:Attention; D001364:Awareness; D002657:Child Development; D003071:Cognition; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D005403:Fixation, Ocular; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D009043:Motor Activity; D014796:Visual Perception