Psychology 2410A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: 18 Months, Gyrus, Noam Chomsky

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2410A/B
• Professor: Adam Cohen

Document Summary

Accumulator one cup per item counted, pour it in to the accumulator , this goes into memory this gives you a type of map for counting objects. Object tracking system and object representation system: cracker choice experiments. Baby sees the experimenter put crackers into buckets they but 2 in one bucket and 3 in the other if the baby is keeping track, he/she should go to the bucket with more crackers. If you put 1 into bucket #1 & 2 into bucket #2, the 10 and 12 year olds prefer the bucket with more crackers. However, when it goes to 3 vs. 4, the choice is due to chance (for 10 mo olds, not. Babies see the experimenter place 2 balls on top of a box, then they are put into the box. The child is allowed to remove a ball from the box, while doing this the experimenter takes out a ball without the baby knowing.