PSYCH 3GG3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Domain Specificity, Critical Period, 18 Months
8 Jan 2017
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Experience dependent learning mechanisms prepared learning constraints on learning. Relies on learning mechanisms designed for specific kinds of learning. Coming from prior hypotheses about what behaviours can be paired with what outcomes privileged domains of knowledge that children learn easily by virtue of developing cognitive preparedness that is specific to those domains. These domains reflect a fitness advantage in our evolutionary history. The idea that many aspects of psychology are processed by specialised psychological processes that focus on areas of knowledge that were fitness relevant in the eea. 3 months: objects must be in contact with support, or it will fall. 6. 5 months: a supported object must have contact with most of the object"s surface occlusion: 3. 5 months containment: 7. 5 months covering: 12 months. If a toy is repeatedly placed in location a, the child knows to search in location a. After habituation, if the toy is visibly placed in location b, the child will still search in location a.
