Learning in the Development of Infant Locomotion

This Monograph presents a new view of locomotor development-the processes involved in acquiring adaptive mobility. We report a longitudinal investigation of infants' ability to adapt movements to variations in the terrain and to changes in their physical capabilities. Abstract v

I: Relevance of Infant Locomotion for Understanding Development 1

II: Adaptive Locomotion: Sources of Information and Task Constraints 6

III: Implications of Previous Research and the Purpose of the Current Study 29

IV: Method 34

V: Data Coding 47

VI: Changes in Infants' Ability to Cope With Slopes 57

VII: Developmental Correlates 87

VIII: Individual Differences 99

IX: Understanding Change 107

References 131

Acknowledgments 140

New Paradigms and New Issues: A Comment on Emerging Themes in the Study of Motor Development 141
Bennett L. Bertenthal, Steven M. Boker

Toward a Developmental Ecological Psychology 152
Eugene C. Goldfield

Discovering the Affordances of Surfaces of Support 159
Eleanor J. Goldfield

Contributors 163

Statement of Editorial Policy 164

Karen Adolph is the author of Learning in the Development of Infant Locomotion, Volume 62, Number 3, published by Wiley. This Monograph presents a new view of locomotor development-the processes involved in acquiring adaptive mobility. We report a longitudinal investigation of infants' ability to adapt movements to variations in the terrain and to changes in their physical capabilities.