Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1983

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Abstract

The relationship between object-person permanence and quality of attachment was assessed in 13 month old infants under equivalent task conditions. Both familiar/salient and unfamiliar/neutral objects and persons were hidden behind large curtains. Contrary to previous findings securely attached infants did not perform differently than insecurely attached babies on the object and person permanence scales. Regardless of security of attachment, babies searched at a higher level for both the familiar/salient person and object than for the unfamiliar/neutral person and object. Infants were most likely to search for the mother and least likely to search for the experimenter. Results suggest that the motivational salience of target persons and objects plays an important role in performance on object and person permanence tests and thus indicate a need for more precision in measurement in order to delineate any existing relationship between the cognitive and affective domains in infancy.

Extent

98 p.

Comments

Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1983.|Charles E. Schmidt College of Science|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1983.

Identifier

FADT14163

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