Baillargeon

Question 1

Violation of Expectation

Answer 1

Infants stare longer at things they haven’t encountered before or seem impossible

Question 2

Drawbridge study

Answer 2

• Coloured box placed in path of drawbridge
• Possible event: drawbridge stopped at point where its blocked by box
• Impossible event: drawbridge passed through box, the box having ‘disappeared’.

Question 3

Findings of Drawbridge study

Answer 3

• Infants spent much longer looking at the impossible event

Question 4

Baillargeon and Graber Rabbit Study

Answer 4

5.5 months ability to represent height of hidden object
- toy rabbit moving along horizontal track
- eye fixation data
- Should be able to realise what is actually happening

Question 5

Theory of infant physical reasoning

Answer 5

Babies born with PRS- basic understanding of physical world
Object Persistence - an object remains the same structure and does not spontaneously change.

Question 6

A03 Strengths

Answer 6

• Valid/accurate: Concept of PRS
• Better explanation than Piagets

Question 7

A03 Limitations

Answer 7

• Behavioural response doesn’t indicate understanding
• Volunteer Bias
• Researcher bias: looking for specific response in infant