Infant temperament and information processing in a visual categorization task

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 559-569

  Vonderlin, Eva ^a   Pahnke, Janna ^a   Pauen, Sabina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Categorization; Habituation; Infant Behavior Questionnaire; Infant temperament; Information processing

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPERAMENT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TEMPERAMENT; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 54949107307     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2008.07.011     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. Applebaum M.I., and McCall R.B. Design and analysis in developmental psychology. In: Kessen W., and Mussen P.H. (Eds). Handbook of child psychology Vol. 1 (1983), Wiley, New York
2. Cohen J. Statistical power analysis for the behavioral sciences. 2nd ed. (1988), Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ
3. Colombo J. On the neural mechanisms underlying developmental and individual differences in visual fixation in infancy: Two hypotheses. Developmental Review 15 2 (1995) 97-135
4. Colombo J., and Mitchell D.W. Individual differences in early visual attention: Fixation time and information processing. In: Colombo J., and Fagan J.W. (Eds). Individual differences in infancy: Reliability, stability, and prediction (1990), Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ
5. Derryberry D., and Reed M.A. Anxiety-related attentional biases and their regulation by attentional control. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 111 2 (2002) 225-236
6. Dixon W.E.J., Salley B.J., and Clements A.D. Temperament, distraction, and learning in toddlerhood. Infant Behavior & Development 29 3 (2006) 342-357
7. Dixon W.E.J., and Smith P.H. Links between early temperament and language acquisition. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly 46 3 (2000) 417-440
8. Fagen J.W., Singer J.M., Ohr P.S., and Fleckenstein L.K. Infant temperament and performance on the Bayley Scales of Infant Development at 4, 8, and 12 months of age. Infant Behavior & Development 10 4 (1987) 505-512
9. Fox E., Russo R., Bowles R., and Dutton K. Do threatening stimuli draw or hold visual attention in subclinical anxiety?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 130 4 (2001) 681-700
10. Fox N.A., Henderson H.A., Marshall P.J., Nichols K.E., and Ghera M.M. Behavioral inhibition: Linking biology and behavior within a developmental framework. Annual Review of Psychology 56 (2004) 235-262
11. Frick P.J. Special selection: Temperament and childhood psychopathology. Integrating research on temperament and childhood psychopathology: Its pitfalls and promise. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology 33 1 (2004) 2-7
12. Gardner J.M., and Karmel B.Z. Development of arousal-modulated visual preferences in early infancy. Developmental Psychology 31 3 (1995) 473-482
13. Gardner J.M., Karmel B.Z., and Flory M.J. Arousal modulation of neonatal visual attention: Implications for development. In: Soraci S.J., and Murata-Soraci K. (Eds). Visual information processing (2003), Praeger Publishers/Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport 125-153
14. Gartstein M.A., and Rothbart M.K. Studying infant temperament via the Revised Infant Behavior Questionnaire. Infant Behavior & Development 26 (2003) 64-86
15. Gray J.A. The psychology of fear and stress. 2nd ed. (1987), Cambridge University Press, New York
16. Kagan J., Reznick J.S., Clarke C., Snidman N., and Garcia-Coll C. Behavioral inhibition to the unfamiliar. Child Development 55 (1984) 2212-2225
17. Kagan J., and Saudino K.J. Behavioral inhibition and related temperaments. In: Emde R.N., and Hewitt J.K. (Eds). Infancy to early childhood: Genetic and environmental influences on developmental change (2001), Oxford University Press, New York 111-119
18. Kochanska, G., Murray, K.T., & Harlan, E.T. (2000). Effortful control in early childhood: Continuity and change, antecedents, and implications for social development. Developmental Psychology, 36 (2).
19. Kopp C.B. Antecedents of self-regulation: A developmental perspective. Developmental Psychology 18 2 (1982) 199-214
20. Mandler J.M., and McDonough L. On developing a knowledge base in infancy. Developmental Psychology 34 6 (1998) 1274-1288
21. Matheny A.P.J. Temperament and cognition: Relations between temperament and mental test scores. In: Kohnstamm G.A., Bates J.E., and Rothbart M.K. (Eds). Temperament in childhood (1989), John Wiley & Sons, Oxford 263-282
22. Maziade M., Coté R., Bernier H., Boutin P., and Thivierge J. Significance of extreme temperament in infancy for clinical status in pre-school years. I. Value of extreme temperament at 4-8 months for predicting diagnosis at 4.7 years. British Journal of Psychiatry 154 (1989) 535-543
23. Maziade M., Coté R., Boutin P., and Bernier H. Temperament and intellectual development: A longitudinal study from infancy to four years. American Journal of Psychiatry 144 2 (1987) 144-250
24. McConnell B.A., and Bryson S.E. Visual attention and temperament: Developmental data from the first 6 months of life. Infant Behavior & Development 28 (2005) 537-544
25. Messer D.J., McCarthy M.E., McQuiston S., MacTurk R.H., Yarrow L.J., and Vietze P.M. Relation between mastery behavior in infancy and competence in early childhood. Developmental Psychology 22 (1986) 366-372
26. Miceli P.J., Whitman T.L., Borkowski J.G., Braungart-Rieker J., and Mitchell D.W. Individual differences in infant information processing: The role of temperamental and maternal factors. Infant Behavior & Development 21 1 (1998) 119-136
27. Moehler, E., Kagan, J., Parzer, P., Wiebel, A., & Resch, F. (in preparation). Behavioral inhibition in the second year of life is predicted by maternal judgment of infant distress to novelty at four months postnatal age.
28. Moss M., Colombo J., Mitchell D.W., and Horowitz F.D. Neonatal behavioral organization and visual processing at three months. Child Development 59 5 (1988) 1211-1220
29. Nigg J.T., Goldsmith H.H., and Sachek J. Temperament and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: The development of a multiple pathway model. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology 33 1 (2004) 42-53
30. Oakes L.M., and Ribar R.J. A comparison of infants' categorization in paired and successive presentation familiarization tasks. Infancy 7 1 (2005) 85-98
31. Ochsner K.N., and Gross J.J. Thinking makes it so: A social cognitive neuroscience approach to emotion regulation. In: Baumeister R.F., and Vohs K.D. (Eds). Handbook of self-regulation: Research, theory, and applications (2004), Guilford Press, New York 229-255
32. Panksepp J. At the interface of the affective, behavioral, and cognitive neurosciences: Decoding the emotional feelings of the brain. Brain and Cognition 52 1 (2003) 4-14
33. Pauen S. The global-to-basic level shift in infants' categorical thinking: First evidence from a longitudinal study. International Journal of Behavioral Development 26 6 (2002) 492-499
34. Pauli-Pott U., Mertesacker B., and Beckmann D. Ein Fragebogen zur Erfassung des fruehkindlichen Temperaments im Elternurteil. Zeitschrift fuer Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie 31 2 (2003) 99-110
35. Pauli-Pott U., Ries-Hahn A., Kupfer J., and Beckmann D. Zur kovariation elterlicher Beurteilungen kindlicher Verhaltensmerkmale mit Entwicklungstest und Verhaltensbeobachtung. Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie 48 5 (1999) 311-325
36. Posner M.I., and Rothbart M.K. Developing mechanisms of self-regulation. Development and Psychopathology 12 (2000) 427-441
37. Quinn P.C. Development of subordinate-level categorization in 3- to 7-month-old infants. Child Development 75 3 (2004) 886-899
38. Quinn P.C., and Johnson M.H. Global-before-basic object categorization in connectionist networks and 2-month-old infants. Infancy 1 1 (2000) 31-46
39. Rothbart M.K. Measurement of temperament in infancy. Child Development 52 2 (1981) 569-578
40. Rothbart M.K. Temperament and the pursuit of an integrated developmental psychology. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly 50 4 (2004) 492-505
41. Rothbart M.K., and Ahadi S.A. Temperament and the development of personality. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 103 1 (1994) 55-66
42. Rothbart M.K., and Bates J.E. Temperament. In: Damon W., and Eisenberg N. (Eds). Handbook of child psychology, 5th ed.: Vol. 3. Social, emotional, and personality development (1998), John Wiley & Sons, Oxford 105-176
43. Rothbart M.K., Ellis K.L., and Posner M.I. Temperament and self-regulation. In: Baumeister R.F., and Vohs K.D. (Eds). Handbook of self-regulation (2004), Guilford Press, New York 357-370
44. Rothbart M.K., Posner M.I., and Hershey K.L. Temperament, attention, and developmental psychopathology. In: Cicchetti D., and Cohen D.J. (Eds). Developmental psychopathology, Vol. 1: Theory and methods (1995), John Wiley & Sons 315-340
45. Ruddy M.G. Attention shifting and temperament at 5 months. Infant Behavior & Development 16 2 (1993) 255-259
46. Rueda M.R., Fan J., McCandliss B.D., Halparin J.D., Gruber D.B., and Lercari L.P. Development of attentional networks in childhood. Neuropsychologia 42 8 (2004) 1029-1040
47. Rueda M.R., Posner M.I., and Rothbart M.K. Attentional control and self-regulation. In: Baumeister R.F., and Vohs K.D. (Eds). Handbook of self-regulation: Research, theory, and applications (2004), Guilford Press, New York 283-300
48. Smith P.H., Dixon W.E.J., Jankowski J.J., and Sanscrainte M.M. Longitudinal relationships between habituation and temperament in infancy. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly 43 2 (1997) 291-304
49. Sokolov Y.N. Perception and the conditioned reflex (1963), Pergamon Press, Oxford
50. Stevenson-Hinde J. Behavioral inhibition: Issues of context. In: Reznick J.S. (Ed). Perspectives on behavioral inhibition (1989), University of Chicago Press, Chicago 125-138
51. Thomas A., and Chess S. Temperament and development (1977), Bruner/Mazel, New York
52. Treiber F.A. Temperament differences between infants who do and do not complete laboratory testing. Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied 116 1 (1984) 95-99
53. Wachs T.D., Morrow J., and Slabach E.H. Intra-individual variability in infant visual recognition memory performance: Temperamental and environmental correlates. Infant Behavior & Development 13 3 (1990) 397-403
54. Wachs T.D., and Smitherman C.H. Infant temperament and subject loss in a habituation procedure. Child Development 56 4 (1985) 861-867
55. Zeskind P.S., and Marshall T.R. Temporal organization in neonatal arousal: Systems, oscillations, and development. In: Weiss M.J.S., and Zelazo P.R. (Eds). Newborn attention: Biological constraints and the influence of experience (1991), Ablex Publishing, Westport, CT, US 22-62