Abstract
This study was aimed to examine the relation between crawling experience and the development of detour behavior in infants aged 8-10 months. One hundred and sixty-five infants (79 precrawlers and 86 crawlers) were tested in the lab with standardized procedures. The results indicated: (a) Crawling status had significant main effect on the infants’ detour task performance; this main effect was still significant when the infants’ age was controlled statistically; infants with crawling experience got much higher scores than precrawlers, which indicated that crawling experience had positive effect on the infants’ detour behavior development. (b) There was significant positive correlation between the duration of crawling and the score on detour task. With the infants’ age being controlled statistically, this positive correlation was still significant, which provided further evidence for crawling experience as a facilitator of the infants detour behavior development. (c) In the 8-month-old group, crawling experience facilitated the infants’ detour behavior development significantly; in the 9 and 10-month-old groups, while crawlers showed the tendency of performing better than precrawlers, there was no significant difference in the development of detour behavior between the crawlers and the precrawlers.
| Keywords: | crawling experience; infants; detour behavior |
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