Cashon Cara H, Cohen Leslie B
Department of Psychology University of Texas at Austin.
Infancy. 2000 Oct;1(4):429-446. doi: 10.1207/S15327078IN0104_4. Epub 2000 Oct 1.
This study investigated 8-month-old infants' perception of object permanence in an extension of the rotating screen studies by Baillargeon (1987) and Baillargeon, Spelke, and Wasserman (1985). Using computer-animated stimuli similar to the "live" stimuli used by Baillargeon and her colleagues (Baillargeon, 1987; Baillargeon et al., 1985), 48 8-month-old infants were habituated to 1 of 4 computer-animated events and then tested on all 4 events. The events involved a screen that rotated in either a 180° or 120° arc*** and a block that either was sitting in the path of the rotating screen or absent from the event. The results provided no evidence that infants responded on the basis of the possibility or impossibility of the events as claimed by Baillargeon and her colleagues, but instead indicated that the infants responded on the basis of perceptual novelty. These results are consistent with the findings of Schilling (this issue) and Bogartz, Shinskey, and Schilling (this issue). Taken together, along with the findings of Rivera, Wakeley, and Langer (1999), these more recent findings suggest that Baillargeon's (1987; Baillargeon et al., 1985) results should not be interpreted as definitive evidence of object permanence in very young infants.
本研究在Baillargeon（1987年）以及Baillargeon、Spelke和Wasserman（1985年）的旋转屏幕研究基础上进行扩展，调查了8个月大婴儿对客体永久性的认知。使用与Baillargeon及其同事所使用的“真实”刺激相似的计算机动画刺激（Baillargeon，1987年；Baillargeon等人，1985年），48名8个月大的婴儿先对4个计算机动画事件中的1个进行习惯化，然后对所有4个事件进行测试。这些事件包括一个以180°或120°弧度旋转的屏幕***以及一个要么位于旋转屏幕路径上要么不在事件中的方块。结果没有提供证据表明婴儿像Baillargeon及其同事所声称的那样基于事件的可能性或不可能性做出反应，而是表明婴儿基于感知新奇性做出反应。这些结果与Schilling（本期）以及Bogartz、Shinskey和Schilling（本期）的研究结果一致。综合起来，连同Rivera、Wakeley和Langer（1999年）的研究结果，这些最新研究结果表明，Baillargeon（1987年；Baillargeon等人，1985年）的结果不应被解释为非常年幼婴儿客体永久性的确凿证据。
