PSY 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Magical Thinking, Intersubjectivity, Cardinality

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 302
• Professor: Margaret Moulson

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Infants born with reflexes (first schemes), general learning mechanisms (organization and adaptation), and motivation to develop. It is not until 18mths-2yrs that children develop symbolic representation, deferred imitation, object permanence: remember, core-knowledge theorists: Infants born with innate knowledge about certain aspects of the world. Infants have domain-specific learning mechanisms to learn about these privileged domains. Object knowledge: object permanence, piaget, there is now evidence that much younger infants are able to mentally represent invisible objects and events, violation-of-expectancy procedure: Infants are shown an event that should evoke surprise or interest if it violates something that the infant knows to be true. Violation of expectancy: baillargeon (1987), 3. 5-month-old i(cid:374)fa(cid:374)ts look lo(cid:374)ger at the (cid:862)i(cid:373)possi(cid:271)le(cid:863) e(cid:448)e(cid:374)t, 3. 5-month-old infants know that the box remains even when it is invisible. Physical knowledge: knowledge of gravity begins in the first year. Infants have been shown to look longer at objects that violate expected motion trajectories.