PSYC 251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Parsing
7 Apr 2015
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Cognition: higher level processes: remembering, categorizing, reasoning even about events that are no longer in view, implicit cognition (cid:224) unconscious cognition, unconscious knowledge, explicit cognition (cid:224) when you can ask children about their own mental processes (ex. Why are infants better with object permanence in looking tasks: memory demands aren"t the same, motor inhibition, differences in task demands (reaching tasks have to be more proactive, maybe it"s a different type of cognitive processing that infants aren"t ready for (cid:224) it doesn"t mean that they don"t have object permanence, they just need explicit cognition , reaching behaviours is explicit, looking time is not. Infants looks longer at a scene when there is an unusual break in the actions (eg. pause half way through bending down to pick something up (cid:224) infants find this unusual vs. seeing someone paused while bent down picking something up: study by woodward (cid:224) infants see actions as associated with goals vs. paths of motion.
