Balligerion

Question 1

Balligerion early infant abilites

Answer 1

-infants have inate core knowledge allowing them to have some knowledge of the physical world from early infancy, early infants have some GSF and object permenance ability from 2 and a half months suggesting cognitive development is inate and occurs earlier than outlined by piaget

Question 2

Violation of expectation technique

Answer 2

Children are shown normal scenarios then ‘magic’ scenarios, if they look longer at the magic scenarios it indicates suprise and that they have some expectation of how objects behave

Question 3

Early infant abilities

Answer 3

Children have some internal representation of objects, they can understand what is physically possible and impossible for an object to do and have object permenance

Question 4

Supporting research-Minnie mouse doll study

Answer 4

-Shown a minnie mouse doll moving sideways then being covered by a screen then a magic condition with a see through window where the doll apears to disapear and emerge on the other side of the window without being seen-infants looked longer indicating suprise and suggesting they are aware the doll should have been visible-object permenance

Question 5

Contradicting research- Cashen and Cohen

Answer 5

Gave infants VOE tasks but found they look longer at novel scenarios than at ‘magic’ scenarios, looking longer doesn’t prove they are suprised or have knowledge of object properties

Question 6

cashen and cohen

Answer 6

Contradicted Balligerion’s research and found looking for longer may be because the scenario is unfamilar not because its impossible.