PSY 457LEC Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Verbal Reasoning, Little Albert Experiment, Object Permanence
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Less sudden changes than it may have seemed. Reasoning not always similar (e. g. , number conservation < liquid quantity conservation) Advanced understanding of taste and weight by the preschool yrs. Experiments not always run in a consistent fashion. Verbal reasoning may not represent abilities (lack of performance doesn"t always mean lack of competence) Useless a child"s extremely delayed, parents often don"t consider their child development to be slow. Use children"s natural behavior: conditioning - little albert - do infants really learn this way, preferential looking. Given 2 objects to look at, infants look at the most interesting one. This means that they must discriminate the images. Babies aren"t blind when they are born (though visually not great) In recent years, we have started to use more sophisticated ways of testing visual testing. Robert dantz was the first to set-up this procedure using a looking chamber . Children in box with 2 visual display on ceiling.
