Reactions to response-contingent stimulation in early infancy.

By J. Watson, C. Ramey. 1972

Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology

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Investigating Contingency Awareness Using Atari 2600 Games (2012, background): “Within the cognitive science literature, contingency awareness is considered a crucial step in the intellectual development of children, and is widely believed to be acquired during early infancy (Watson and Ramey 1972).”
A theory of causal learning in children: causal maps and Bayes nets. (2004, background): “Those assumptions are contingent— where they are false, causal inference may fail to get things right.”
Acquisition, representation, and control of action (2009, background): “…are able to pick up contingencies between their own leg movements and the movements of a mobile connected to the leg (Rovee & Rovee, 1969; Watson & Ramey, 1972) or the sounds of a rattle (Rochat & Morgan, 1998), and they learn to turn their heads to the caudal part of the rostral…”
Perceived Control and the Development of Coping (2010, background): “Perceived control and coping during infancy Newborns react to stressors based on their species’ general stress physiology and their temperamental characteristics (Derryberry et al., 2003 ; Gunnar & Quevado, 2007 ).”
The development of coping. (2007, background): “…one is distressed (Lewis, 1997), generalized expectancies for contingency and dependability and a sense of mastery or efficacy in the face of environmental challenges (Watson & Ramey, 1972), and generalized expectancies that one’s preferences will be attended to and respected (Deci & Ryan, 1985).”
A Motivational Theory of Life-Span Development (2010, background): “This proposition is well supported in humans as young as neonates (DeCasper & Carstens, 1981; Papousek, 1967; J. S. Watson, 1972; J. S. Watson & Ramey, 1972; White, 1959) and for animals of various species (White, 1959).”
Infants' perception of expressive behaviors: differentiation of multimodal information. (1997, background): “They found that the contingency of responding (Watson & Ramey , 1972), not visual information, is the compelling cue for intentionality.”