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Negative affect predicts performance on an object permanence task
DOI:10.1111/1467-7687.00210.png)
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Recent research has demonstrated a strong connection between an infant's ability to regulate their affective states and their attentional processes. In particular, negative affect can disrupt attention to the environment. In the object permanence literature, attention has been implicated as a factor in performance on the A-not-B task, yet factors that may disrupt attention, such as negative affect, have been largely ignored as a possible factor which predicts correct search. In the present study, we examined the effects of negative affect and attention on correct search performance for a sample of 36 9-month-old infants in a two location A-not-B task with a 5-second delay between hiding and search. Infants' levels of negative affect and attention to the task were coded on the third A trial of the A-not-B task. It was predicted that infants who searched incorrectly on the B trial would show high levels of negative affect and low levels of attention whereas infants who searched correctly would show the opposite pattern and furthermore, that negative affect would mediate the association between attention and search performance. The results of the study supported the hypotheses and are taken as indicating the importance of emotion-cognition interactions in the development of cognitive competence.
Keyword:
YOUNG INFANTS
SEARCH
PERSPECTIVE
SEPARATION
RESPONSES
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