PSY 153 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Almost Surely, Object Permanence, Prototype Theory
27 Aug 2016
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Baillargeron (1986) child is shown an inclined track with a screen that can be raised and lowered. Habituates to watching car roll down track, behind screen, and to other side. Possible event toy mouse is placed behind tracks and is hidden when car rolls past. Impossible event mouse is placed on tracks but secretly removed when hidden so car rolls through babies looked longer at impossible event than at possible event. Have a difficulty stopping and changing a behavior (if used to doing a they are less likely to try b) Babies do have object permanence but they are conditioned to a certain behavior. Concepts general ideas of understandings that can be used to group together objects, events, quantities, or abstractions that are similar in some way. Na ve physics untrained understanding the way the physical world works. Cohesion two objects cannot pass through each other, fuse together, or break apart on their own.
