Abstract
The object of this study was to find out whether the mother-stranger différenciation by the young infant was a phenomenon stable over a short period of time. For that purpose, twenty-four three-months old babies were observed on 4 consecutive days. The mother and the stranger each talked to the subject during two minutes. Six variables were selected as indicators of différenciation. The results showed that the number of individually stable infants was significant in some variables : more smiles and vocalizations, shorter latence time for the first vocalization and shorter fixation time in response to the mother's presence. An important methodological point : taking into consideration only the first 30 seconds of the interaction time entails a sensible loss of information.
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