PSY 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Conifer Cone, Tacit Knowledge, Object Permanence
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Psy302, secion 011 (dr. ma) |child development | february 27, 2015| lecture 6. 6 months: no object permanence- (things will coninue to exist even though it cannot be seen) Areas of innate knowledge: (they are born in the world with special abiliies to solve tasks that are special to evoluion eg. language percepions, face percepion) Stable across development (no change in innate abiliies) 5 possible areas of core knowledge - objects; number; geometry; agents (telling diference between inanimate and things with intelligence - (eg. diference between human being and desk); us vs. Intuiive physics: tacit knowledge about basic mechanical properies and principles that adhere in the world of physical objects (how physical objects funcion in a physical world) Objects are permanent!- things will exsit even though you cannot see it. 3-month-olds show surprise when screen falls unhindered in test violaion of expectaion method (baillargeon et al. 1985)- when block is sill there and the paper can fully uncover it.
