Influence of breeding practices on 6- and 12- month-old infants’
attentional behavioral repertoire
G. Ortiz1 and C. Cañedo2
1Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones
en Comportamiento, Universidad de Guadalajara, México
2School of psychology, ITESO, México
Parents play an important role in development by regulating and organizing
their infants’ behavior trough their own behavior. Parents control
the infant’s attentional repertoires until the child is capable of
naming and signalling objects and the repertoire becomes independent.
However, these attentional repertoires are often conceptualized as a matter
of physiological maturation and not as something learned through mother
(caregiver)-child interactions. In order to identify the influence of
breeding practices on the attentional repertoires in 6- and 12- month-old
infants, we videotaped the mother-child interaction in a 30-min game situation
and registered the frequency of the different behaviors that compose a
repertoire of attention (i.e. attention getting, attentional responses,
spatial proximity gradient and breeding strategies). The results show
consistency between indications given by the mother and the child’s
attentional responses..
Paper presented
at Measuring Behavior 2005
, 5th International Conference on Methods and Techniques
in Behavioral Research, 30 August - 2 September 2005, Wageningen, The
Netherlands.
© 2005 Noldus
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