Exam 5: Coming to Understand the Physical World

If 4-month-old Jacob has developed an understanding of object solidity, then he will dishabituate more strongly on the drawbridge task when:

What are four main differences between social agents and inanimate objects that seem to guide infants' thinking?

How is spatial representation in infants encoded, and how are these encoded concepts tied to different abilities/expectations?

A scheme is a child's:

Take the position of either an empiricist or a nativist, briefly explain your approach, and, then, describe how an infant's ability to categorize emerges according to your view.

For $29.95, the "Widget-for-Your-Infant DVD" promises to vastly improve your infant's abilities by using neuroscience principles to increase the number of synaptic connections in your infant and selectively prune unnecessary connections.Based on your understanding of neuroscience, you are skeptical because you know that:

Researchers have conducted studies in which they give infants unique opportunities to experience causality (for example, by picking up objects with Velcro gloves).The findings from these studies contribute to the idea that causation is:

Briefly explain how it is that dishabituation studies are used to examine infants' understanding of social agents' goals, and how the interpretation of these findings can be difficult.

Vanessa watches two blocks move: first one, then the other, without touching each other.Next, she watches two people move: first one, then the other, without touching each other.Which scenario would you expect her to dishabituate more strongly to and why?

Piaget believed infants make the A-not-B error because they cannot:

During which of the sensorimotor substages do tertiary circular reactions emerge?

The development and use of number concepts occurs:

In developmental order, Piaget's stages of development are:

Accommodation is said to occur when a child:

Mia has just moved into the next stage of Piagetian development.Based on this, you can expect that her thinking and abilities:

The A-not-B error involves children:

A young child who looks at a plane in the sky and says "bird" has engaged in adaptation by:

If Eugene remembers that he left his book on his right, near his leg, he is using:

Explicit cognition refers to a thought process that involves having an:

According to Piaget's theory, children experience a very different world than adults; this is partially because children: