PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Almost Surely, Cardinality, Magical Thinking
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Understanding causality, do children understand cause and effect relationships, by 6 months, 9-11. Infants perceive causal connections among some physical events. Infants the reproduce actions that are causally related: by end of 24 months, children can infer causal impact of one variable from indirectly relevant information. Space: from early in infancy, children code the locations of objects in relation to their own bodies. Increasingly lasting object representation related to brain maturation of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex: space independent of self if related to self locomotion and system interconnectedness, self locomotion enhances older children"s spatial coding. Infants as young as 5 months appear to have such a sense of numerical equality, at least as it applies to sets of 1, 2, 3 objects. Infants possess an approximate sense of larger numbers. It is not until 3 or 4 years of age that children show precise representation of sets even slightly larger than 3.
