Bakeman R, Adamson L B, Konner M, Barr R G
Départment of Psychology, Georgia State University, Atlanta 30303.
Child Dev. 1990 Jun;61(3):794-809.
The present study consists of new analyses of systematic observations of Kung infants made by Konner during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Our intent was to examine claims about the role of object sharing in development by describing how Kung infants develop interest in objects and how their caregivers act toward them when they are engaged in object-related acts. Results indicated that infants first displayed sustained interest in objects beginning at 4 months of age and that, beginning at about 8 months, they also began to engage in relational play and to give objects to others. Others tended to ignore infants during episodes of object manipulation and play, but moments of object offering were often socially embedded. These findings provide support for claims that there are universal changes in infants' involvement with objects and that their involvement is channeled in a culturally relevant manner by their caregivers.
本研究包括对康纳在20世纪60年代末和70年代初对昆族婴儿进行的系统观察的新分析。我们的目的是通过描述昆族婴儿如何发展对物体的兴趣，以及当他们参与与物体相关的行为时其照顾者如何对待他们，来检验关于物体共享在发展中的作用的说法。结果表明，婴儿从4个月大时开始首次表现出对物体的持续兴趣，并且从大约8个月大时开始，他们也开始进行互动游戏并将物体递给他人。在物体操作和游戏过程中，其他人往往会忽略婴儿，但递物的时刻通常具有社会情境。这些发现支持了这样的说法，即婴儿与物体的互动存在普遍变化，并且他们的互动是以一种与文化相关的方式由其照顾者引导的。
