A classic study on this
How Do You Learn to Walk? Thousands of Steps and Dozens of Falls per Day
Karen E. Adolph, Whitney G. Cole, Meghana Komati, Jessie S. Garciaguirre, Daryaneh Badaly, Jesse M Lingeman, Gladys L. Y. Chan, Rachel B. Sotsky · 2012 · Psychological Science
- Children
- About 150 babies
- Where
- New York area, United States
- Ages
- About 1 to 1½ years
- How
- Researchers filmed babies playing and counted their steps and falls
- What it found
- New walkers took about 2,400 steps and fell about 17 times an hour on average. Learning to walk takes a great deal of practice and plenty of tumbles.
- Limits
- Mostly middle-class families from one city.