Baillargeon Flashcards
Her aim
To discover the unsuspected abilities of newborn and young children
Why does she believe children don’t search for objects that are out of sights
Because they don’t have the physical capacity to do so, don’t have the motor ability as they are too young rather than a failure to understand object permanence
Object permanence
Knowing a object still exsists even if it’s out of sight
Violation of expectation
A method of conducting research with infants using their surprised reaction as a measure of whether what they see is what they expect or not
The research she devise helped investigate major aspects of the CORE KNOWLEDGE THEORY. The core knowledge theory believe that
Humans are born with a small number of systems of core knowledge that serve to represent inanimate objects and their relationship
She suggested two possibilities for the acquisition of core knowledge theory
Innate fast learning- born with abilities to learn fast
And
Innate object knowledge- born with object knowledge
She Carried our her own research into VOE which typically comprises of two stages
Stage 1- infants are shown a particular event several times. This allows the infants to become familiar with the stimulus and stop responding to it
Stage 2- infants are divided into 2 groups. One shown expected event one shown unexpected
Study that supports
The rolling carrot task
The rolling carrot task
Aim- investigate infants ability to understand object permanence
Procedure- a large and small carrot sliding along track and reach a screen with window. Arranged so you see large carrot. However it doesn’t appear experimenters measure the child’s reaction
Findings- children as young as 3 month looked for longer when it didn’t appear. But Piaget sat this should happen at 8 month
Does she support nature of nurture
Nature
Natur debate
Based on innate knowledge
She believed object permanence developed earlier than Piaget said as she said they’re born with it.
Should take into account nurture to make more valid and get further explanation of early abilities in young infants
Piaget contrast
Piaget said object permanence develops at 8/9 month she said born with it
Piaget is nurture she’s nature
Both Should take a more interactionist view
Ethical issues
Protection from harm- if they are shocked can cause distress
Informed consent- Only babies parents have to consent for them so extra precautions have to take place
