PSY 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Heredity, Attribution Bias, Parental Investment
Document Summary
Making sense out of our experiences requires accurate representation: who or what was involved in an event, where, when, why, and how often the event occurred. Understanding of space, time, causality, and number: begin to develop in the first year after birth, continues throughout childhood and adolescence. Nativists- argue that infants possess an innate causal module or core theory. Empiricists- propose that infants" repeated observations of the environment provide causal understanding. 6 months- infants perceive causal connection among some physical events, such as those involving collisions. 9-11 months- infants can usually reproduce actions that are causally related; casually unrelated actions can be reproduced by 20-22 months. By end of 24 months- children can infer causal impact of one variable from indirectly relevant information: causal representations are getting more complex. Preschool period: preschoolers and young elementary school children live in a world infused by fantasy and reality. Magical reasoning: start to infer causal connection in which causal connections do not exist.
