Effects of mother-infant social interactions on infants' subsequent contingency task performance

P Dunham; F Dunham

Effects of mother-infant social interactions on infants' subsequent contingency task performance

Child Dev. 1990 Jun;61(3):785-93.

Authors

P Dunham¹, F Dunham

Affiliation

¹ Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

PMID: 2364753

Abstract

20 3-month-old infants participated in a nonsocial contingency task immediately following a social interaction with their mothers. A measure of the time the dyads spent in a state of vocal turn-taking predicted individual differences in the infants' subsequent performance on the contingency task. These results parallel the social transfer effects we reported earlier in which the turn-taking dimension of social structure was experimentally manipulated to assess its effect on a subsequent nonsocial contingency task.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Affect
Arousal*
Attention*
Female
Humans
Infant
Male
Maternal Behavior
Mother-Child Relations*
Psychology, Child*
Social Behavior*
Verbal Behavior