Exam 1: Infancy: The Physical World 1

A ___ is a generalized cognitive representation of a class of stimuli.

Having a full ___ concept refers to having the understanding that objects are enduring entities that continue to exist when out of view.

Infants are able to learn by associative learning, learning by imitation, and ___ based learning.

A baby who is a "short looker" in habituation paradigms is assumed to be faster at ___ information.

In violation of expectation paradigms, typical regularities in the relations between objects are violated in ___ events.

In the visual ___ paradigm, infants are shown two pictures and their looking times for both pictures are measured as an index of their ability to make a visual discrimination between the pictures.

An object's spatial and temporal information is usually processed by the ___ route of visual processing, also known as the 'where' pathway.

Statistical learning requires the ability to track ___ probabilities.

Infants prefer to look at the visual event that matches an auditory soundtrack. This shows a preference for ___ across modalities.

An electroencephalogram (EEG) measures ___ signaling by cell assemblies in the brain by attaching sensitive electrodes to the scalp.

In Rovee-Collier's paradigm, infants learn to kick to activate a mobile. They are learning a ___ contingency.

Infants' ability to remember pictures of geometric forms and faces that they had seen 2 days ago is evidence for a well-developed ___ memory.

In the development of infants' physical reasoning, spatial relations are typically learned earliest in the event category of ___

Violation of expectation paradigms have been criticized because it is not possible to discount ___ interpretations of differences in infants' looking time.

"Above" and "below" are examples of ___ relations.

In Rovee-Collier's reactivation paradigm, showing infants a moving mobile acts as a ___ cue.

In working memory experiments, participants usually find it easier to remember the first and last items in a set of objects. This is known as the primacy effect and the ___ effect.

Infants' understanding of objects and the physical laws governing their interactions is known as naive ___.

Procedural memory is also known as ___ memory.

"More than" and "less than" are examples of ___ relations.