L33 Psych 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Causal Structure, Sensory Memory, Keebler Company
5 Mar 2019
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Understanding cause and effects: what do infants understand about cause and effect, leslie and keebler (1987) No b without a, no a without b. Then phase 1 task is repeated: results: almost all selected a, but 3 year olds were less consistent (some switched their minds, phase 3: child is shown three events: c, then d, then c". Even though the contraption is no longer together, they know that the first ball has to be the cause: results: both age groups primarily selected temporal over spatial. The one before the pop up and not the one connected to the puppet: conclusions: cause before effect despite severed connection. Understanding cause and effect: causal structure can appear at two different levelsl in perception as well as underlying knowledge. What do infants understand about cause and effect: infants perceive the causal structure of simple collision events and this perceptual skill may support rapid causal learning without prior knowledge about the actual mechanism.
