IngentaConnect Rediscovering Development in Infancy

Authors: Campos, Joseph J.; Witherington, David¹; Anderson, David I.²; Frankel, Carl I.³; Uchiyama, Ichiro⁴; Barbu-Roth, Marianne⁵

Source: Child Development, Volume 79, Number 6, November/December 2008 , pp. 1625-1632(8)

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

Abstract:

This commentary endorses J. Kagan's (2008) conclusion that many of the most dramatic findings on early perceptual, cognitive, and social competencies are ambiguous. It supports his call for converging research operations to disambiguate findings from single paradigms and single response indices. The commentary also argues that early competencies must be placed into a longitudinal framework, thereby allowing researchers to (a) identify whether regressive phenomena play a role in skill development, (b) understand what functions (if any) given skills play in their precocious manifestations and whether these functions are comparable in later instantiations of skills, and (c) avoid rich interpretations by identifying how robust a suspected competency is across contexts.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01212.x

Affiliations: 1: University of New Mexico 2: San Francisco State University and University of California, Berkeley 3: Vanderbilt University and University of California, Berkeley 4: Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan 5: CNRS, Universite de Paris, IX

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