PSY 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Face Perception, 18 Months, Deferent And Epicycle
16 May 2019
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Like piagetian and information-processing theories, core-knowledge theories depict. Emphasize the sophistication of infants" and young children"s thinking in areas that have. Two characteristic features of research inspired by core-knowledge theories: Focuses on areas that have been important throughout human evolutionary history. Young children reason in ways that considerably more advanced than piaget suggested. Core-knowledge theories been important throughout human evolutionary history were possible. View of children"s nature children as active learners, constantly striving to solve problems and to organize their understanding into coherent wholes. However, core-knowledge theorists view children as entering the world with specialized learning abilities that allow them to quickly and effortlessly acquire information of evolutionary importance. Face perception: from birth onward, infant prefer looking at faces over other objects. Language: the universality of language acquisition and the role that the left hemisphere plays in processing grammar provide evidence for specialize mechanisms for learning language.
