PSY-PC 1250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Almost Surely, Causal Structure, Object Permanence
4 Feb 2020
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Core knowledge of gravity (and support, amy needham, do babies expect to see things fall when suspended, use surprise paradigm to figure out--one possible event and one impossible event. Learning mechanisms: assimilation--when children encounter something new in the world, first inclination is to try to fit it in with current understanding of the world. Memory: most people can remember something from the 3-4 range, but it is hard to remember/there"s not a lot of memories there. For a while, it was thought that infants did not have much of a capacity for memory, but not true. Short-term memory--necessary for object permanence tasks and habituation. Long-term memory--remember infants read cat in the hat in the womb. Just how good is this long-term memory system: conjugate reinforcement paradigm--(similar to operant conditioning) put baby in the crib, attach a ribbon to the babies foot and to a metal bar to test baseline kicking.
