Powerpoint 3: Infant Cognitive and Perceptual Measures

Question 1

who is Baldwin?

Answer 1

A psychologist who was very prominant and a beginnig of developmental research (Piaget used his research) but his name has been dropped from alot since he was causght with prostitutes

Question 2

what are baby bibliographie?

Answer 2

journals of babies, first development methods, 1800-1900s

Question 3

who began systematically observing kids first?

Answer 3

baldwin

Question 4

who developed questionaire to learna bout developemtn first?

Answer 4

hall (1890s) some research still holds till today

Question 5

who created school testing and assessments to see which kids would do well in school?

Answer 5

binet and simon

Question 6

who studied “defective” children to learn more about atypical and typical devlopment. Who were the “defectove children”

Answer 6

freud and vygotsky
ADHD
Trauma
autism

Question 7

who developed “clinical” methods

Answer 7

piaget

- but its actually called experimental testing today

Question 8

what did piaget study in “clinical” methods from the 1930s - onward

Answer 8

infants motor behaviour

Question 9

what did fantz study in “clinical” methods frmo the 1960s - onward

Answer 9

infants looking behaviour

Question 10

at what age can babies od visiable displacements?

Answer 10

about 2 years
- put object inside another object and move that object around, then the infant can find the object - kind of like that road-side magician scam

Question 11

how can we study what infants touch/grab to determine what they know

Answer 11

if they believe things belong to two seperate categories, infants will touch things alike first before moving to another category

Question 12

what is sticky mittens? what have we learned from them?

Answer 12

mittens that have velcro that can cling to objects that have velcro so infants can pick up things before their hands have the motor control to do so themselves

we learn that after infants grab tins they look up more at the face right afterward - better socail interactions once they can grab things

Question 13

how do we use sucking when studying babies? what is HAS?

Answer 13

interested in something they will suck harder and faster - can train babies to suck at rates for certain stimili - can learn what they like to see
High Amplitude Sucking

Question 14

what have we learned aobut babies’ head turning

Answer 14

sound localization is present in new borns, disappears between 2-3 months old, and reappers later (U-shaped curve) maybe reflex from birth then later its voluntary; can also train babies with this

Question 15

new born baby vs older baby :

what does their heart rates mean

Answer 15

newborn:
increase - new stimulus

older baby:

increase: fearful
decrease: new stimulus

proposes a measurement of equivalence issue
- change of heart rate = something is different

Question 16

what do babies do if there is a looming object? how do we use this?

Answer 16

they throw their arms out if a looming object is near… helps us test depth perception

Question 17

at what age do infants have a social smile? what do we use this for?

Answer 17

6 months; measure social responses, study when they begin to recognize themselves in the mirror since they will smile at themselves

Question 18

visual interest test. how does it work?

Answer 18

Researchers show two different pictures
See how much time they look at one picture and the other irrespective of side - tells you which one they prefer to look like; look more at the one they prefer; really dislike - look at less than other; look about the same if they don’t prefer either

• can tell us what they can discrimminate and what they prefer

Question 19

what do babies seem to prefer looking at?

Answer 19

moderately complex stimuli

human faces over other kinds of similarly complex stimuli