Arthur Woodward

Datos Biográficos

ID348266
NOMBREArthur Woodward
NOMBRESArthur
APELLIDOWoodward
FIRMAWOODWARD A
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Chicago
ORCID0000-0002-9383-9969
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS40
TOTAL DE CITAS163
TOTAL COMO AUTOR38
TOTAL COMO EDITOR2
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1936
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2024
ÍNDICE H5

  • Development of infants’ preferential looking toward native language speakers across distinct social contexts

    Open AccessMarcelo Colomer, Hyesung G Hwang et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2024

    Presenting pictures of faces side by side is a common paradigm to assess infants' attentional biases according to social categories, such as gender, race, and language. However, seeing static faces does not represent infants' typical experience of the social world, which involves people in motion and performing actions. Here, we assessed infants' looking preferences for native over foreign language speakers in two social contexts: the presentatio…

  • Should I learn from you? Seeing expectancy violations about action efficiency hinders social learning in infancy

    Open AccessMarcelo Colomer, Marc Colomer et al.ARTICLECognition2023

  • Exploring intra‐ and inter‐cultural differences in toddlers’ time allocation in a Yucatec Maya and US community

    Open AccessCecilia Padilla-Iglesias, Cecilia Padilla‐Iglesias et al.ARTICLESocial Development2023Referencias: 7

    The extent to which toddlers have opportunities to learn in interactive, observational, and independent contexts is thought to vary by culture. However quantitative assessments of cultural variability and of the factors driving intra‐ and inter‐cultural differences in toddler's time allocation are lacking. This paper provides a comparative and quantitative examination of how toddlers spend their time and with whom (adults or children) in two comm…

  • Origins of homophily

    Open AccessZoe Liberman, Katherine D Kinzler et al.ARTICLECognition2021

  • Learning From Others

    Open AccessLauren H Howard, Tracy Riggins et al.ARTICLEChild Development2020

    Little is known about the influence of social context on children's event memory. Across four studies, we examined whether learning that could occur in the absence of a person was more robust when a person was present. Three-year-old children (N = 125) viewed sequential events that either included or excluded an acting agent. In Experiment 1, children who viewed an agent recalled more than children who did not. Experiments 2a and 2b utilized an e…

  • A Pilot Study of Wichita Indian Archeology and Ethnohistory

    Open AccessRobert Bell, Edward Jelks et al.ARTICLEIndex of Texas Archaeology Open…2020Citada por: 4Referencias: 11

    In 1965 several anthropologists drew up plans for a one-year pilot study of the archeology and ethnohistory of the Wichita Indian tribes. After financial support had been generously provided by the National Science Foundation, the proposed research was carried out. This is a report on the results of that study. The pilot study was designed to: a) obtain a body of field data from the components of the Spanish Fort sites, the largest and best=docum…

  • The Study of Historic Archaeology in America

    Arthur Woodward, Arthur Smith WoodwardCHAPTERHistorical Archaeology2019

    Very little attention has been paid to the study of the historic period, that is, the immediate contact and post-European contact periods extending from the 15th to the 20th centuries. Students of American archaeology, when encountering European materials in burials and village sites, have usually minimized the importance of such specimens, without seriously attempting to place them in the chronological scale. However, such items as glass beads, …

  • Actions speak louder than gestures when you are 2 years old

    Open AccessMiriam A Novack, Courtney A Filippi et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2018Citada por: 1Referencias: 4

    Interpreting iconic gestures can be challenging for children. Here, we explore the features and functions of iconic gestures that make them more challenging for young children to interpret than instrumental actions. In Study 1, we show that 2.5-year-olds are able to glean size information from handshape in a simple gesture, although their performance is significantly worse than 4-year-olds'. Studies 2 to 4 explore the boundary conditions of 2.5-y…

  • The Origins of Social Categorization

    Open AccessZoe Liberman, Arthur Woodward et al.ARTICLETrends in Cognitive Sciences2017

  • Are child-directed interactions the cradle of social learning

    Open AccessLaura Shneidman, Arthur Woodward et al.ARTICLEPsychological Bulletin2016Citada por: 9

    Theorists have proposed that child-directed, ostensive interactions provide a critical point of entry for supporting children's learning from others, either because they render the intentions of a teacher easier to understand (e.g., Barresi & Moore, 1996; Moore, 2010; Tomasello, 1999) or because they mark information as culturally important and generalizable (e.g., Csibra & Gergely, 2009). This article evaluates these proposals in light of data f…

  • Textbooks in School and Society

    Arthur Smith Woodward, Arthur Woodward et al.BOOKTextbooks in School and Society2013

    Textbooks have been standard schoolroom fixtures for as long as most living citizens of this country can remember. Many turn-of-the-century students were introduced to reading through the moralistic McGuffey Readers and struggled through the rather drab and colorless pages of volumes on history, geography and civics. In contrast, today's textbooks contain not only narrative content accompanied by colorful photographs and graphics, but also sectio…

  • Active Experience Shapes 10‐Month‐Old Infants’ Understanding of Collaborative Goals

    Open AccessAnnette M E Henderson, Ying Wang et al.ARTICLEInfancy2013

    Collaborative activities in which individuals coordinate their actions to attain a common goal play a fundamental role in our everyday lives. Evidence suggests that infants engage in collaborative activities before their first birthday; however, little is known about infants’ understanding of collaborative action. Using a visual habituation paradigm, this research consists of two experiments designed to investigate whether 10‐month‐olds understan…

  • The Goal Trumps the Means

    Open AccessSarah A Gerson, Arthur Woodward et al.ARTICLEInfancy2013

    Means‐end actions are an early‐emerging form of problem solving. These actions require initiating initial behaviors with a goal in mind. In this study, we explored the origins of 8‐month‐old infants’ means‐end action production using a cloth‐pulling training paradigm. We examined whether highlighting the goal (toy) or the means (cloth) was more valuable for learning to perform a well‐organized means‐end action. Infants were given the opportunity …

  • Mother–infant Interaction Quality and Infants' Ability to Encode Actions as Goal‐directed

    Open AccessMaria Ester Licata, Maria Licata et al.ARTICLESocial Development2013Citada por: 2Referencias: 7

    The current study investigated the relationship between mother–child interaction quality and infants' ability to interpret actions as goal‐directed at 7 months in a sample of 37 dyads. Interaction quality was assessed in a free play interaction using two distinct methods: one assessed the overall affective quality ( emotional availability ), and one focused on the mother's proclivity to treat her infant as an intentional agent ( mind‐mindedness )…

  • Learning From Their Own Actions

    Open AccessSarah A Gerson, Arthur Woodward et al.ARTICLEChild Development2013Citada por: 5Referencias: 6

    Prior research suggests that infants' action production affects their action understanding, but little is known about the aspects of motor experience that render these effects. In Study 1, the relative contributions of self-produced ( n = 30) and observational ( n = 30) action experience on 3-month-old infants' action understanding was assessed using a visual habituation paradigm. In Study 2, generalization of training to a new context was examin…

  • Toddlers learn words in a foreign language

    Open AccessM A Koenig, Melissa Koenig et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2012

    The current study examined monolingual English-speaking toddlers' ( N =50) ability to learn word–referent links from native speakers of Dutch versus English, and second, whether children generalized or sequestered their extensions when terms were tested by a subsequent speaker of English. Overall, children performed better in the English than in the Dutch condition; however, children with high native vocabularies successfully selected the target …

  • Learning From Textbooks

    Marilyn R Binkley, Bruce K Britton et al.BOOKLearning from Textbooks2012

    Contents: A. Woodward, Introduction. B.K. Britton, S. Gulgoz, S. Glynn, Impact of Good and Poor Writing on Learners: Research and Theory. R.L. Allington, R-M. Weber, Questioning Questions in Teaching and Learning From Texts. B. Armbruster, J. Ostertag, Questions in Elementary Science and Social Studies Textbooks. J.R. Levin, R.E. Mayer, Understanding Illustrations in Text. A. Woodward, Do Illustrations Serve an Instructional Purpose in U.S. Textb…

  • The accidental transgressor

    Open AccessMelanie Killen, Kelly Lynn Mulvey et al.ARTICLECognition2011

  • Sensitivity of 24-month-olds to the prior inaccuracy of the source

    M A Koenig, Arthur Woodward et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2010Citada por: 11Referencias: 8

    Three studies examined 24-month-olds' sensitivity to the prior accuracy of the source of information and the way in which young children modify their word learning from inaccurate sources. In Experiments 1A, 2, and 3, toddlers interacted with an accurate or inaccurate speaker who trained and tested children's comprehension of a new word-object link. In Experiment 1, children performed less systematically in response to an inaccurate than to an ac…

  • Seven‐Month‐Old Infants Selectively Reproduce the Goals of Animate But Not Inanimate Agents

    Open AccessNeha Mahajan, Arthur Woodward et al.ARTICLEInfancy2009

    We tested 7‐month‐old infants' sensitivity to others' goals in an imitation task, and assessed whether infants are as likely to imitate the goals of nonhuman agents as they are to imitate human goals. In the current studies, we used the paradigm developed by Hamlin et. al (in press) to test infants' responses to human actions versus closely matched inanimate object motions. The experimental events resembled those from Luo and Baillargeon's (2005)…

  • New perspectives on the effects of action on perceptual and cognitive development

    David H Rakison, Arthur Woodward et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2008Citada por: 3Referencias: 13

    This special section was motivated by a resurgence in the view that it is impossible to investigate perceptual and cognitive development without considering how it is affected by, and intertwined with, infants' and children's action in the world. This view has long been foundational to the field, yet contemporary investigations of the effects of acting on cognition and perception have been limited. The research showcased in this section indicates…

  • Not all emotions are created equal

    Amrisha Vaish, Tobias Grossmann et al.ARTICLEPsychological Bulletin2008Citada por: 95Referencias: 3

    There is ample empirical evidence for an asymmetry in the way that adults use positive versus negative information to make sense of their world; specifically, across an array of psychological situations and tasks, adults display a negativity bias, or the propensity to attend to, learn from, and use negative information far more than positive information. This bias is argued to serve critical evolutionarily adaptive functions, but its developmenta…

  • Action experience alters 3-month-old infants' perception of others' actions

    Open AccessJessica A Sommerville, Arthur Woodward et al.ARTICLECognition2005

  • Infants' Sensitivity to the Causal Features of Means-End Support Sequences in Action and Perception

    Open AccessJessica A Sommerville, Arthur Woodward et al.ARTICLEInfancy2005

    Current work has yielded differential findings regarding infants' ability to perceptually detect the causal structure of a means-end support sequence. Resolving this debate has important implications for perception-action dissociations in this domain of object knowledge. In Study 1, 12-month-old infants' ability to perceive the causal structure of a cloth-pulling sequence was assessed via a habituation paradigm. After seeing an event in which a s…

  • Is Agency Skin Deep? Surface Attributes Influence Infants' Sensitivity to Goal‐Directed Action

    Open AccessJose J Guajardo, Arthur Woodward et al.ARTICLEInfancy2004

    Three studies investigated the role of surface attributes in infants' identification of agents, using a habituation paradigm designed to tap infants' interpretation of grasping as goal directed (Woodward, 1998). When they viewed a bare human hand grasping objects, 7‐ and 12‐month‐old infants focused on the relation between the hand and its goal. When the surface properties of the hand were obscured by a glove, however, neither 7‐ nor 12‐month‐old…