Baillargeons's theory of early abilities

Question 1

Who is Renee Baillargon?

Answer 1

A canadian psychologist based at illinos University.

Question 2

Whos work does she build on?

Answer 2

Piagets

Question 3

What work does she carry on from Piaget?

Answer 3

Object permanace

Question 4

Major assumption of Baillargeon?

Answer 4

Vety young infants have a much more advanced understanding of the world than Piaget proposed

Question 5

What is violation of expectation?

Answer 5

The idea that infants will show suprise when witnessing an impossible event.

Question 6

Outline the procedure and findings of the rabbit task.

Answer 6

Infant looked for an average of 33 seconds at the imposible event whereas only looked for 27 seconds at the possible event.Which she then interpreted that baies were suprised at the impossible event. She observed 24 babies from 4-6 months. They watched a tall and short rabbit move behind a screen. In the impossibel event no rabbit was shown behind the window.

Question 7

One strength of Baillargeons research is that it is methodogically strong.

Answer 7

She used standardised procedures and controlled for potential effects of extraneous varibales such as the influence of the caregivers.Caregivers closed their eyes and didnt interact with the baby. This helped to improve reliablity because all babies had the same caregiver experience.

Question 8

However it can be argued her research lacks validity.

Answer 8

Many researchers have sugested that infants may look at the impossible task for any numbers of reasons for example the babies may stare longer due to the bright colours or toys.

Question 9

What is the physical reasoning system?

Answer 9

Is an innate system allows us to navigate our world.

Question 10

What is occlusion events?

Answer 10

A distant object moves behind a nearer object so is blocked from view

Question 11

What is a containment event?

Answer 11

One object is placed inside another

Question 12

What is a cover event?

Answer 12

A rigid container such as a box is lowered over an object

Question 13

What is a support event?

Answer 13

Where one object rests on another

Question 14

Similarities with piagets theory

Answer 14

It is a stage theory
We are born with certain schemas which we build on with interaction.

Question 15

What is a false belief?

Answer 15

ask a subject to interpret how another peron will react in a senario in which the other person has diffrent info than the subject.