Exam 4: Cognitive Development in Infancy

EEG studies that showed infants a ball which either gradually became hidden or disappeared helped establish ____________________ at an earlier age than Piaget proposed.

The idea infants possess some innate knowledge which helps to guide their acquisition of more knowledge is called …

Encountering a new breed of dog and already knowing some information about it because it is a dog is an example of …

Four-month-old infants …

Categorisation that develops beyond what is perceived visually is aided by:

The acquistion of ____________ allows integrations of knowledge across the other core domains.

A rich interpretation of the disappearing doll study would be that …

Infants are considered to have underdeveloped ______________.

Replication of studies is most important for …

The idea that the act of reaching for an object was a part of the object's identity in the infant's mind was proposed by …

The idea that young infants do not think objects exist if they cannot perceive them is called …

In the drawbridge study, infants …

That two-year-olds have trouble with the A not B task in a sandbox agrees most with …

According to Diamond, failure at the A not B task could be due to inability to have both object permanence and ________________________.

The dynamic systems view does NOT claim that …

The appearance and disappearance of dolls on a stage in one study helped to argue that infants are capable of …

Infants seem to use the ______ of an animal as the main clue to categorise it.

An interpretation of experimental results which avers that infants display symbolic representation and reasoning could be called …

Current evidence seems to lean towards the idea of …

In the A not B task, young infants will …