PSY 457LEC Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Habituation, Test Cricket, Object Permanence
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Constructivism: children create their own understanding of the world, through experiencing things and reflecting from those experiences. Nativist: innate knowledge and innate learning mechanism impose biases in interpretation of certain domains of information. Children and adults are fundamentally diff in how they think. Useless a child is extremely delayed, parents often don"t consider their child development to be slow. Jut because infants don"t have a preference or one of the 2 items ,that doesn"t mean they can"t tell the difference. Advanced understanding of taste and weight by the preschool yrs. Experimenter observed and coded the infants eyes by looking through a peephole. Compute when the baby"s sucking tails off, and then change sound. Simple principle: if you show something to an infant often enough, they jul get bored. If they can detect the difference, they should. Visual fixation (older children: when baby looks.
