Chapters 4,5,6 Flashcards
1
Q
What is infancy?
A
The period of development from birth to 24 months (second birthday)
2
Q
What are the 3 basic cores of cognitive processes?
A
Perception, Attention, and Memory
3
Q
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
4
Q
What is the visual preference paradigm?
A
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