Exploring individual differences in infants' looking preferences for impossible events: The Early Multidimensional Curiosity Scale.

ABSTRACT: Infants are drawn to events that violate their expectations about the world: they look longer at physically impossible events, such as when a car passes through a wall. Here, we examined whether individual differences in infants' visual preferences for physically impossible events reflect an early form of curiosity, and asked whether caregivers' behaviors, parenting styles, and everyday routines relate to these differences. In Study 1, we presented infants (N = 47, M_age  = 16.83 months, range = 10.29-24.59 months) with events that violated physical principles and closely matched possible events. We measured infants' everyday curiosity and related experiences (i.e., caregiver curiosity-promoting activities) through a newly developed curiosity scale, The Ea

SUBMITTER: Lee N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9931910 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature