PSYCH211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Indigo Bunting, Almost Surely, Frontal Lobe
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A world composed of permanent objects constitutes not only a spatial universe but also a world obeying the principle of casualty in the form of relationships between things, and regulated in time, without continuous annihilations or resurrections (piaget, 1954) Babies go for hidden object at 8 months. But babies make the a-not- b error until 18 months. Piaget"s conclusion: before 8 months, object is a mere image which re-enters the void as soon as it vanishes, and emerges from it for no objective reason (piaget, 1954) Renee baillargeon (1985: these tasks are too hard for babies, require means-end planning. Means: i hate to remove the cloth first. Frontal cortex activities done by a baby will be slowly or not achieved because it is the last part to fully develop. Children see this as operant condition; they think that as long as they reach for an object under the orange blanket, they are rewarded with something.