Browsing by Author "Amy Needham"
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Ivy, Sarah Elizabeth (2014-07-22)Department: Special EducationChildren’s ability to use a spoon facilitates increased independence during mealtimes and greater control over the pace and quantity of food intake. Children with multiple disabilities including visual impairment (MDVI) ...
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Vazquez, Maria Dolores (2012-12-11)Department: PsychologyChildren consider others’ prior behavior to evaluate whether they are likely to provide accurate information in the future. Prior research has demonstrated that the ability to complete a goal in action or language is viewed ...
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Erdemir, Aysu (2016-09-02)Department: PsychologyMusic conductors use hand-arm gestures to shape the sound that their musicians produce. Six series of experiments are conducted in order to understand the nature of such cross-modal links between observed hand gestures and ...
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Strouse, Gabrielle A. (2011-04-08)Department: PsychologyToddlers and young preschoolers rapidly learn new information from social partners around them. However, they do not learn efficiently from people who appear on video (Anderson & Pempek, 2005). Dialogic reading, a ...
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Wiesen, Sarah Elizabeth (2017-11-20)Department: PsychologyThrough reaching out, grasping, and playing with objects, infants can learn how to interact efficiently and effectively with their surroundings as well as learn about causality, the contingency between their actions and ...
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Hirtle, Jane Anne Trapp (2016-07-19)Department: PsychologyPrevious research on the development of infant tool use learning in the second year of life has provided contrary evidence as to how infants select among differentially effective tools following independent exploration, ...
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Watson, Kelly Haker (2016-05-25)Department: PsychologyThis study examined concurrent maternal and child correlates of maternal coping socialization messages using a cross-informant, multi-method design. Maternal responsive/warm parenting behaviors were also examined as a ...
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Osina, Maria Alexandrovna (2014-11-25)Department: PsychologyThe purpose of the current two studies is to investigate infants’ access to and their use of two sources of information when establishing common ground with the speaker. In study 1, I investigate infants’ access to shared ...
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Wiesen, Sarah Elizabeth (2014-07-25)Department: PsychologyInfants’ object preferences determine their learning opportunities. We investigated how infants’ visual preferences are influenced by their current motor abilities. Past research shows that very young infants prefer to ...
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Hirtle, Jane Anne Trapp (2013-07-18)Department: PsychologyThis thesis presents three experiments examining 7- to 9-month-old infants’ use of category knowledge of 3-dimensional objects to perceive 2-dimensional exemplars from the same category. In all experiments, infants failed ...
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St.Clair, Rebecca (2012-04-09)Department: PsychologyObject correspondence is the process by which the visual system matches the identities of objects to their locations to form stable percepts. Object correspondence is useful when we watch a sporting event, like basketball, ...
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O'Doherty, Katherine Duffy (2013-04-18)Department: PsychologyBy the time children reach the preschool years, they have become skilled in two social abilities: 1) dividing their world into social groups and evaluating people based on group dimensions; and 2) learning from social ...