Exam 5: Coming to Understand the Physical World

Evidence for infants being able to "add" and "subtract" from Wynn (1992) would be their dishabituation at seeing:

According to Piaget, children commit the A-not-B error because of an inability to apply:

When Juan is shown his bear being hidden under his blanket multiple times, he learns to reach under the blanket and get it.This time, you hide his bear under his blanket, but then move it behind your back while he's watching you.If Juan looks under his blanket again, he has committed the:

Studies that have examined the use and understanding of number (such as Izard et al., 2009) by using visual and acoustic information have found:

Which statement would support a nativist's interpretation of the development of categorization and the understanding of objects?

If a child is said to be in the preoperational stage of development, this means she is able to:

Why is it generally considered tentative to describe what infants are thinking in research about causation?

An important concept involved in understanding whether infants understand causal relationships is called spatial contiguity.This means, for example, that causal relationships can occur because:

Piaget's theory is said to stress "domain generality." This is important because it means that his theory:

Piaget's sensorimotor period of development typically lasts from:

You want to keep your 5-month-old infant's bedroom interesting for him.He has recently seemed to become bored with a mobile hanging off the bottom corner of his crib.You know based on allocentric spatial representation that he will find it most interesting if you:

Once infants understand how social agents and inanimate objects move, they have an expectation that:

By 1 year, infants come to understand the differences between what to expect from animate and inanimate objects.This would be represented by a 1-year-old infant looking longer when an:

You are designing a study to examine infants' understanding of number.You should consider all of the following EXCEPT that:

Gerard is setting up a detailed investigation of social agents.He could use all of the following for his social agents EXCEPT:

Piaget's theory suggests that development occurs:

Dr.Jacobs needs to infer what infants are thinking for a developmental research project that involves watching an object move.He should use:

Knowing spatial representation is important for infants who are learning about space, as a new parent you would want to set your home up with several options for all of the following EXCEPT ________ to help your infant learn the space.

Spatial relations that reference where things are relative to landmarks are considered:

A 3-year-old child who understands object permanence and solidity begins to be capable of: