Mother-Infant Interaction in the Emergence of a Tool-Using Skill at Mealtime: A Process of Affordance Selection

IF 1.8 3区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

Ecological Psychology Pub Date : 2018-03-09 DOI:10.1080/10407413.2018.1438199

Tetsushi Nonaka, E. Goldfield

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This study provides a detailed description of the process of the emergence of the utensil-using skill of infants to control encounters with food and mother-infant joint action that surrounds the emergence of this context-specific skill. Longitudinal observations from the first contact with a utensil to the beginning of successful self-feeding with a utensil found that there was an extended period of exploratory utensil use that precedes the use of the utensil for the goal of feeding around which adults organized the environment where such feeding-irrelevant activities of the infants were tolerated. Subsequently, adults gradually introduced and highlighted the opportunities for infants' functional feeding encounters, often by adjusting the position of objects on the table. Overall, we found the process of what may be called affordance selection—in which a definite set of opportunities for action among many available were selected by adults to invite certain spontaneous behaviors of developing infants. This study adds to the growing realization that normally occurring experiences of rich affordances matter in the development of specific behavior in a given cultural context.

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Mealtime工具使用技能出现时的母婴互动：一个负担得起的选择过程

摘要本研究详细描述了婴儿控制食物接触的器具使用技能的出现过程，以及围绕这种特定情境技能出现的母婴联合动作。从第一次接触器具到开始成功地用器具进行自我喂养的纵向观察发现，在使用器具进行喂养之前，有一段较长的探索性器具使用期，成年人围绕着这段时间组织环境，在那里可以容忍婴儿的这种与喂养无关的活动。随后，成年人逐渐介绍并强调婴儿功能性喂养的机会，通常是通过调整桌子上物体的位置。总的来说，我们发现了一个可以被称为可供性选择的过程——在这个过程中，成年人在许多可用的机会中选择了一组明确的行动机会，以邀请发育中婴儿的某些自发行为。这项研究进一步认识到，在特定的文化背景下，通常发生的丰富可供性体验对特定行为的发展很重要。

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Ecological Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL-

CiteScore

3.30

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10.50%

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期刊介绍： This unique journal publishes original articles that contribute to the understanding of psychological and behavioral processes as they occur within the ecological constraints of animal-environment systems. It focuses on problems of perception, action, cognition, communication, learning, development, and evolution in all species, to the extent that those problems derive from a consideration of whole animal-environment systems, rather than animals or their environments in isolation from each other. Significant contributions may come from such diverse fields as human experimental psychology, developmental/social psychology, animal behavior, human factors, fine arts, communication, computer science, philosophy, physical education and therapy, speech and hearing, and vision research.