I am planning to conduct some imitation tasks to figure out infant cognitive development with range of 8-36 month infants.
Though I have to deal with various age group, my concern is how I can vary the difficulty through ages within one single task.
Dear Youngshin,
If you start with a plain model of e.g. a face with e.g. eyes and then add on more and more details which are growing more and more sofisticated representing different moods, expressions, skin and other colors, and the like is this something that can inspire you?
this is a tall task!.
You will need to find a physical motion that will be in play ( that is, easy to imitate) for infants 10 months through the infancy period. The pointer( second) finger is in play from about 10 months onward. .So you lay out about 3-5 interesting small colorful toys. Then you choose to point to a very attractive toy in a simple array of toys - say an array with a toy car, a toy doggie, a toy baby, a toy teddy, and a toy banana. You can pretend first to point to the chosen item yourself and say delightedly " Look I see the X !!) as you smile and point to that one object .Then clap for yourself and say "Yeah. I see the X! ). Then, with a big smile, ask baby to point to X also. ( the item you have just pointed at). This may be an easy way to get imitation from infants of many different ages, after you first have captured their attention by setting out the array and naming each object slowly as you set it down in a horizontal line In front of the baby seated facing the table . You may increase the numbers of items for older babies to challenge their imitation abilities more in being able to imitate you by pointing to object X from a larger array of objects..
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