Psychology 2410A/B Lecture Notes - Individuation, Prefrontal Cortex, Learning With Errors
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Challenge to piaget: underestimates child"s knowledge, competence-performance distinction, competence - what you know, performance - ability to express what you know, we want to reduce performance demands so we can get a better estimate of infants competence. Violation of expectation paradigm (voe: compare responses to expected and unexpected events, ex. Lecture 5: conclusion: infants represent object (object permanence) and location of object when hidden (feature binding) Piaget"s theory of development sensorimotor period: object knowledge. B: decreasing delay before search, decrease the number of placements of a. Explanation: memory account, support: effect of delay, problem: error persists even with transparent or no cover. 2: also major challenge to piaget"s theory because they can see the object (not out of sight out of mind) Inhibition account: immature dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex, if you lesion this part of the brain in rhesus monkeys they begin to commit the a- not-b error, social cues are misdirecting the infant, pedagogy account.