PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Edge Detection, Cognitive Development, Counterfactual Thinking
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Reorientation interference studies reorientation experiment- subjects watch as reward is hid in one corner of a rectangular room. 180 degrees to opposite table and identify the picture that matched first one in a variation, subjects had to rearrange a group of objects after rotating. 180 degrees to match alignment on first table: direction of causality can go both ways. Deloache"s scale model task- had children watch as experimenter hides a small model stimulus in a model room and a real stimulus (represented by model stimulus) in an identical normal-sized room. What mechanisms or predisposition do infants have for perceiving things/sensory info as objects: do we innately see complete objects, or do we learn to for associations between an object"s properties. Was neither an empiricist or nativist: thought simple sensory primitives were building blocks, but did not think learning was solely based on associations.
