Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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what is the A not B error? - ✔✔If the baby reaches several times for an object at one hiding place
(A), then see it moved to another (B), they still search for it in the first hiding place (A).
what is substage 5 and when does it occur - ✔✔Tertiary circular reactions 12-18 months
-development of schemes regarding deliberate variation of actions that bring desirable consequences
-carrying out miniature experiments to observe consequences. "mini scientists"
what is substage 6 and when does it occur - ✔✔beginnings of though 18 months-2 years
-capacity of mental representation or symbolic thought
-mental representation
-understanding causality
-ability to pretend
-deferred imitation ex. putting makeup on days later after watching mom
What are the basics of the information processing approach? - ✔✔-identifies the way individuals take
in, store, and use information
-involves quantitative changes in the ability to organize and manipulate information
-increases sophistication, speed, and capacity of information processing that characterizes
cognitive growth
-focuses on types of mental programs used when seeking to solve problems
How do information processing theorists think development proceeds (is development proceeding
continuously or discontinuously) and how does this contrast with Piaget? - ✔✔continuously
, unlike Piaget who thinks it occurs in stages
What did the Dr. Rovee-Collier kicking mobile study show about infant memory formation? -
✔✔incresase in memory capacities with age
-infants who have learned the association between a moving mobile and kicking showed
surprising recall ability when they were exposed to a reminder, up to a month later
-2mo have long term memory but need a reminder
-6mo increase in how long they can remember
What is infantile amnesia and is it a real phenomenon (can infants create memories before the age
of 3?) - ✔✔the inability of human adults to remember episodic experiences that occurred during
the first few years of life (generally 0-3 years)
is the recall of memories of past events accurate or not accurate before 18-24 months? - ✔✔not
accurate
the earliest memories seem to be ___ and involve the __ and ___ - ✔✔implicit; cerebellum and brain
stem
later memories are ___ and involve the ___ - ✔✔explicit; hippocampus
when explicit memory does emerge, it involves an increasing number of areas of the ___ of the brain -
✔✔cortex
when does explicit memory emerge - ✔✔emerging second half of first year; 6 mo
When do pre-babble (cooing) sounds emerge and are they specific to language? - ✔✔4-6 months
not specific to languages
What is canonical babbling? - ✔✔repeated consonant-vowel syllables
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what is the A not B error? - ✔✔If the baby reaches several times for an object at one hiding place
(A), then see it moved to another (B), they still search for it in the first hiding place (A).
what is substage 5 and when does it occur - ✔✔Tertiary circular reactions 12-18 months
-development of schemes regarding deliberate variation of actions that bring desirable consequences
-carrying out miniature experiments to observe consequences. "mini scientists"
what is substage 6 and when does it occur - ✔✔beginnings of though 18 months-2 years
-capacity of mental representation or symbolic thought
-mental representation
-understanding causality
-ability to pretend
-deferred imitation ex. putting makeup on days later after watching mom
What are the basics of the information processing approach? - ✔✔-identifies the way individuals take
in, store, and use information
-involves quantitative changes in the ability to organize and manipulate information
-increases sophistication, speed, and capacity of information processing that characterizes
cognitive growth
-focuses on types of mental programs used when seeking to solve problems
How do information processing theorists think development proceeds (is development proceeding
continuously or discontinuously) and how does this contrast with Piaget? - ✔✔continuously
, unlike Piaget who thinks it occurs in stages
What did the Dr. Rovee-Collier kicking mobile study show about infant memory formation? -
✔✔incresase in memory capacities with age
-infants who have learned the association between a moving mobile and kicking showed
surprising recall ability when they were exposed to a reminder, up to a month later
-2mo have long term memory but need a reminder
-6mo increase in how long they can remember
What is infantile amnesia and is it a real phenomenon (can infants create memories before the age
of 3?) - ✔✔the inability of human adults to remember episodic experiences that occurred during
the first few years of life (generally 0-3 years)
is the recall of memories of past events accurate or not accurate before 18-24 months? - ✔✔not
accurate
the earliest memories seem to be ___ and involve the __ and ___ - ✔✔implicit; cerebellum and brain
stem
later memories are ___ and involve the ___ - ✔✔explicit; hippocampus
when explicit memory does emerge, it involves an increasing number of areas of the ___ of the brain -
✔✔cortex
when does explicit memory emerge - ✔✔emerging second half of first year; 6 mo
When do pre-babble (cooing) sounds emerge and are they specific to language? - ✔✔4-6 months
not specific to languages
What is canonical babbling? - ✔✔repeated consonant-vowel syllables
