PSYCH211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Numerical Cognition, Psych, Individuation

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH211
• Professor: Shaylene Nancekivell

Document Summary

Rational action: goal attribution to inanimate agents can occur in infants by 6. 5 months (csibra). Piaget may have gotten the ages wrong in which these cases can occur but he started it, no one knew anything about this back then. He was one of the first to talk about these ideas and pretty much laid the foundation of this field. He also inspired people to develop new research/study methods. Information processing accounts: they argue that what"s going on in development is our basic cognitive systems are developing. Not interested in a discussion at the level of concepts and representations . Three systems: memory: large changes in long-term memory during infancy: 2 month olds remember a neutral piece of information (how to turn on a mobile) for 1 to 2 days. This type of study would be a purest long-term memory test, single exposure, and more controlled, neutral piece of information. 6 months old it"ll increase to 2 weeks.