Psychology 2410A/B Lecture Notes - Individuation, Psych, Habituation
17 Dec 2013
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Compare responses to expected and unexpected events. Result: dishabituation for object permanence in 5 mo. Conclusion: infants represent object permanence and location of object when hidden (feature binding) Visual attention task (instead of manual search) Make a and b distinct (2 covers with different patterns) Decreasing the delay before the baby searches. Decrease the number of placements at a (stashed at a twice before it"s switched to. At a 10 times then switched to b, babies will make more error) Support: effect of delay (if you reduce memory demands you increase performance) Problem: if you use transparent covers or no covers, you will still get the a not b error. They"re making the error for other reasons, major challenge to piaget"s theory: inhibition account: the parts of the brain (dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex- dlpc) that support inhibitory control are massively underdeveloped (in young kids, even in teenagers)
