Health Sciences 2700A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Noam Chomsky, Operant Conditioning, Connected Space
22 Sep 2020
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Imitation may occur, but only of schemes the baby already knows: beginning understanding of the object concept , clear, intentional means-end behaviour, may combine 2 schemes. 6: can transfer information from one sense to the other (cross- modal perception, experimentation . Infants need to have the mental capacity to remember where the object went if they are to be able to identify it: by 12 months, most infants mostly understand this concept. Imitating the actions of others: babies start by imitating actions they could see themselves make, such as hand gesture, and then move on to imitating other people"s facial gestures around 8- Development in infancy: have to have established intermodal perception in order to do this. 5. 2 identify some challenges offered to piaget"s explanation of infant cognitive development: many studies since piaget"s time have suggested that he underestimated the cognitive capacity of infants. Imitation may also appear at younger ages than piaget"s research implied.
