ACCT20200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Long-Term Memory, Object Permanence, Habituation
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Chapter 5: cognitive development in infancy and toddlerhood. Mental representations: internal depictions of information that the mind can manipulate most powerful= images and concepts. Permits make believe play and deferred imitation, which is the ability to remember and copy the behavior of models who are not present. While piaget"s ideas ha(cid:448)e led to a lot of dis(cid:272)o(cid:448)er(cid:455) a(cid:374)d resear(cid:272)h, there are parts of his research that no long apply he underestimated what babies could do and how they could think. Violation of expectation method: researchers may habituate babies to a physical event to familiarize them with a situation in which their knowledge will be tested or they may simply show babies an expected event and an unexpected event. Heightened attention to the unexpected event suggests that the i(cid:374)fa(cid:374)t is (cid:862)surprised(cid:863) (cid:271)(cid:455) a de(cid:448)iatio(cid:374) fro(cid:373) ph(cid:455)si(cid:272)al realit(cid:455) a(cid:374)d is therefore aware of that aspect of the physical world.
