Exam 5: Cognitive Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood

Why do information-processing researchers sometimes examine infants' heart rate as an index of attention rather than (or in addition to) infants' gaze?

The stage of attention when an infant starts to process stimuli and learning occurs is referred to as

Baby Andreas watches his father shave and, hours later, mimics this behavior. This is an example of

According to Piaget, how does mental representation relate to means-end analysis?

Explain how the home environment, as evaluated using tools such as the Home Observation for the Measurement of the Environment (HOME), may affect an infant's cognitive development.

How might caregiver sensitivity and emotional availability impact an infant's development of social cognition?

Briefly summarize the phases of attention with reference to changes in heart rates as described by information processing researchers.

What is the violation-of-expectation paradigm, and how does it help researchers study the cognitive abilities of infants?

Which is the chronological order of the characteristics of the first five sensorimotor substages as defined by Piaget?

The term social cognition refers to

You observe 6-month-old Renata repeatedly hitting her hand on the floor and making a sound. What substage, according to Piaget, are you likely observing?

Which is evidence that an infant understands goal-directed reaching?

Violation-of-expectation experiments have been used to examine whether infants

Baby Jamal watches as a parent puts his stuffed bunny repeatedly in a certain location and retrieves the stuffed bunny from that location. Next, the parent puts the stuffed bunny in the same location, but then moves the stuffed bunny to another location while Jamal watches. Jamal continues to search for the stuffed bunny in the first location. This is an example of

The _______ view asserts that infants have greater innate cognitive ability than Piaget assumed.

A researcher notes that 9-month-old Sebastian is watching a picture and his heart rate has steadily slowed down from when the stimulus was first presented. What is the researcher's mostly likely interpretation?

Which is not a tool that cognitive development researchers use to study infants?

How might a proponent of a developmental systems view explain an infant's lack of success in the traditional A-not-B task as described by Piaget?

Review this figure. Briefly summarize and interpret the experimental results shown in this figure.

What is the purpose of false-belief experiments?