Smirnova, Roshka. [The role of communication with an adult in the development of the subject-manipulative activity of a child in the first year of life]

Abstract:
Proceeding from the data obtained in the study designed by M. I. Lisina the authors single out two principal kinds of adult's influence on development of an image of an object in an infant: 1) the adult attaches to the object the "affective charge" motivating the manipulatory activity of the infant which finally leads to appearance of an image, 2) the adult patterns in an adequate way the motor activity of the infant by teaching him specific operations with the object which thus becomes the mechanism of formation of an image of the object. Motor and orienting activity of the infant directed to the object serve as indicators of the availability of qualitative peculiarities of the image of an object.