Acquisition of social referencing via discrimination training in infants

Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 23-36

  Pelaez, Martha ^a   Virues Ortega, Javier ^b   Gewirtz, Jacob L ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Discrimination training; Facial expression; Infants; Joint attention; Mother infant preverbal communication; Social referencing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84863602136     PISSN: 00218855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1901/jaba.2012.45-23     Document Type: Article

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