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11 Cards in this Set
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What is an infant?
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a child between 19-24 months of age
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What are newborns capable of?
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grasping, rooting, sucking, stepping, hearing is developed before birth and sight must develop. They are born and prepared to learn
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Habituation procedure
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infants are reapeatedly presented with a stimulus until the response declines. This decline in response is called dishabituation
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examples of Operant conditioning
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reward/reinforcement- mothers voice comes on when they suck at the right time
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How do babies use their eyes and hands to explore?
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reaching, grasping, then touching with mouth and hands
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Social cues and exploring
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babies will track other people's eyes and refer to others to see what is interesting
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social refrencing
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when babies behave according to the emotional expression of others (12m)
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Infants and the laws of physics
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the infants show surprise at an imposible event such as a car going through a box (3 1/2 months youngest tested)
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Numbers
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presented with slides on two diffrent screens while a central spreaker plays drum beats. They look longer at the screen with the same number of objects as booms
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can babies add?
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at six months a baby could realize when another object appears that was not there before and when one object is taken away
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Piaget's experiments for object permenance
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hiding task- at five months they will not look for toy but at 6 to nine they will
changed-hiding place task- (10-12) invisable displacement task-hides toy in hand then in cup (14) |
