PSY-PC 1250 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Object Permanence, Classical Conditioning, Text Segmentation

• School: Vanderbilt University
• Department: Psychology and Human Development
• Course: PSY-PC 1250
• Professor: Professor Jonathan Lane

Document Summary

In a separate test, 8. 5 month old infants were posed with shallow slopes and steep slopes. The unhesitatingly went down the shallow slopes but stopped for a moment b4 the steep slopes. Learning relations between one"s own body and abilities and the things around them. Infants can do this bc the environment has high degree of regularity and redundancy. Imitation: even newborn babies imitate, reflexively, older infants and children imitate lots of behaviors intentionally, 2 year olds participate in rational imitation, infants" knowledge of objects, object knowledge. Violation-of expectation studies demonstrate that 3. 5 month-olds have mental representation of object: physical knowledge, gravity - sense that things that are unsupported fall. Engaging in this action themselves helps them understand other"s goals: social knowledge and rational knowledge. Blue: adults and children are equal in this matter, and are most likely to give the light blue ball when the percentage is less, develops at about 20 months, early moral intuitions.