PSYC 4010 Lecture Notes - Prefrontal Cortex, Working Memory, Almost Surely
Document Summary
Children are unable to represent objects when they are not available. Understand that objects exist independent of our ability to perceive them. At 8-12 months, infants can search for hidden objects. 8-12 months child sees you hide the object, infant still makes the mistake. Trial-and-error experimentation of the world to find new and diff ways of acting on it. Before this age, infant produces known actions that will produce mostly known outcomes. Here the infant produces new actions and observes the effects. They are able to be more flexible in actions they produce in order to see what effects they have on their world (not limited actions) Can do the a-not-b task but only when object is visibly displaced. Revolve around issues of info-processing: visual attention, perception, perceptual-action coupling. Working memory (a type of short term memory) allow us to temporarily store info that we need in order to.
