PSY E202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Psy, Information Processing, Heredity
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Space: generally visual, egocentric representation (relative to self) The location of objects are coded relative to the infants" position when they learned the location. (infants keep looking right even after you turn them) Self-locomotion helps infants acquire a sense of space. Navigation by landmarks (6 months: the toys are by the recliner and i see the recliner so i will head there to find the toys. Space in blind individuals based on auditory cues. Time: children can understand relative time increments with feedback, order of events, 3 months. Able to understand a repetitive pattern of events over time: 10 months. Infants can remember the order of events for a substantial period of time: 12 months. Infants see a pair of actions once and then imitate them in the correct order: 20 months. Infants have proficiency with sequences of three events (they can represent which came first, next, and last: preschoolers.
