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.
Karen Adolph is the author of Learning in the Development of Infant Locomotion, Volume 62, Number 3, published by Wiley.
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Abstract v I: Relevance of Infant Locomotion for Understanding Development 1II: Adaptive Locomotion: Sources of Information and Task Constraints 6III: Implications of Previous Research and the Purpose of the Current Study 29IV: Method 34V: Data Coding 47VI: Changes in Infants' Ability to Cope With Slopes 57VII: Developmental Correlates 87VIII: Individual Differences 99IX: Understanding Change 107References 131Acknowledgments 140New Paradigms and New Issues: A Comment on Emerging Themes in the Study of Motor Development 141Bennett L. Bertenthal, Steven M. BokerToward a Developmental Ecological Psychology 152 Eugene C. GoldfieldDiscovering the Affordances of Surfaces of Support 159 Eleanor J. GoldfieldContributors 163Statement of Editorial Policy 164