Abstract
This study examined the exploring behaviors, attention and their relationships with the effectiveness of problem solving among eighty 8~11-month-old infants with standardized procedures in laboratory. The results indicated that the effectiveness in infants’ problem solving behaviors and strategies using increased with age. 8-month-old infants hardly explored and solved the problem successfully, while many of 11-month-old infants could solve the problem with correct strategies. In addition, infants kept their attention on task longer and decreased their inattention with their age increased, which was significantly associated with infants’ performance.
| Keywords: | infants; problem-solving; attention |
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