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- Title
Decalage in Infants' Search for Mothers Versus Toys Demonstrated With a Delayed Response Task.
- Authors
Slaughter, Virginia; Boh, Wai
- Abstract
Thirty-one infants, 7 to 14 months of age, were tested on object and mother permanence using a delayed response task (Diamond, 1985), in which a delay period is enforced before infants are allowed to search for hidden objects. Infants were tested in 2 separate conditions in which they searched for their mothers and a large toy, both of which were hidden under curtained tables. The delay period before search was allowed was incremented after each successful trial until infants either failed to search or searched in the wrong location. Infants were scored for the maximum delay preceding a successful search. The results from 17 infants showed that infants were able to withstand significantly longer delays before successful search for the mother than for the toy. These results support previous studies showing that mother permanence precedes object permanence in infants older than 8 months.
- Subjects
INFANT psychology; SEARCHING behavior in children; MOTHER-infant relationship
- Publication
Infancy, 2001, Vol 2, Issue 3, p405
- ISSN
1525-0008
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1207/S15327078IN0203_8