PSY 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Methylphenidate, Attentional Shift, Headache
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Propose distinctive domains of knowledge, some of which are acquired very early in life: ie. Thinking about objects, people, and pets may reflect fundamentally different ways of thinking. Created in part to account for the fact that most children acquire some kinds of knowledge relatively easily and early in life. Belief that children"s theories focus on core domains, rather than being all-encompassing as piaget said. Views cognitive development as an innate capacity to easily acquire knowledge in specialized domains of evolutionary importance such as language, knowledge of objects, and understanding people. Recognizing and being able to categorize are essential skills for infants: by knowing that an object belongs to a category, we learn some of its properties. By 18 months, children can combine specific categories to create more general ones. Infants rapidly create a reasonably accurate theory of some basic properties of objects, a theory that helps them to expect that objects will act in predictable ways: object permanence.
