EAR-20 Lecture 25: EAR-20 - Day 25
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To make sense of our experience/memories, we need to represent. The relations between objects/events = where, when, why, how. Begins to develop in the first year, and continues into adulthood. Requires distinctions between agent and recipient, and identification of a causal link between them. 6-12 months: perceive causal connections among physical events. Understand the likely consequences of objects colliding. 9-11 months: reproduce actions that are causally related. Understanding the actions they are imitating helps toddlers perform the actions in the correct order. The child (a) picks up a small block, (b) puts it into the bottom half of the container, (c) pushes the top half of the container onto the bottom, (d) shakes it. 24 months: can infer causal impact of one variable from indirectly relevant information. Blicket detector a box that played music when a type of object called a blicket was placed on it. Object a, b on the detector, and the music played.
