Table 5.
Incidence of selected infant behaviors in the various phases of the peekaboo game in percentages.
| 4 months | 6 months | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attempts uncover | Initiation cover | Smiles | Vocalizations | Attempts uncover | Initiation cover | Smiles | Vocalizations | |
| Preparation | 1 | 0 | 24 | 30 | 0 | 1 | 27 | 31 |
| Covering | 4 | 1 | 37 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 46 | 17 |
| Waiting | 30 | 0 | 15 | 38 | 40 | 0 | 23 | 29 |
| Uncovering | 2 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 9 | 8 |
| Acknowledgment | 0 | 3 | 48 | 37 | 0 | 2 | 55 | 41 |
| Topic change | 0 | 3 | 38 | 47 | 0 | 4 | 46 | 44 |
If more than one behavior of the same kind occurred within the same phase, only one was counted.