01:830:101 Study Guide - Object Permanence, Habituation, Information Processing

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Habituation: as a stimulus is repeated, infants show less interest for in it. Dishabituation: when a change in a stimulus increases a previously habituated response, used to show whether an infant can detect change in stimulus. Infant hearing: relatively well-developed at birth, infants respond with changes in heart rate to loud sounds. Infant vision: relatively poor at birth but still prefer to look at certain shapes. Infant memory: infants suck more vigorously to produce a recording of their own mother"s voice. Piaget"s cognitive development theory: children have schemas, which are repeatedly exercised patterns of thought or behavior. Assimilation: interpreting new information by using an existing schema. Accommodation: new schemas are created or existing schemas are modified to fit the experiences encountered in new situations. Equilibration: establishment of harmony or balance between the two. Lack the concept of object permanence, the idea that objects continue to exist even when we do not see or hear them: preoperational: