Chapters 4,5,6 Flashcards

1
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What is infancy?

A

The period of development from birth to 24 months (second birthday)

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2
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What are the 3 basic cores of cognitive processes?

A

Perception, Attention, and Memory

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3
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What is experimental habituation?

A

Initially presenting a stimuli to infants until they are habituated (no longer reacts) and then presenting them with a different stimuli to see if they react or notice a change

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4
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What is the visual preference paradigm?

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Infants are shown two stimuli, and they’re reliability attending more to one than the other is taken as evidence that they discriminate between them

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