WEEK 5: Spatial Cognition Flashcards
_______ Space is universal to all organisms, so infants should be born with innate spatial understanding.
a. Learned hypothesis
b. Universal hypothesis:
b. Universal hypothesis:
______ Infants learn about space through interactions with their environment.
a. Learned hypothesis
b. Universal hypothesis:
a. Learned hypothesis
_____ holds the hypothesis that language structure influences the speaker’s cognition
a. Linguistic relativity
b. Spatial categorisation
a. Linguistic relativity
Spatial categorisation can include categorisation of relationships between two objects. Which of the following relationships has been found to develop first?
a) Above/ below
b) Right/ left
c) Inside/ outside
d) Between/ containment
b) Right/ left
Josh is walking through the city using his phone navigator. Josh’s phone battery unexpectedly stops working. Fortunately, Josh is familiar with the city and uses his knowledge of city landmarks to help guide him back to Flinder’s Street station (the main station in Melbourne). In this example Josh is using which type of Frame of Reference?
a) Retinocentric
b) Allocentric
c) Body centred
d) Egocentric
b) Allocentric
According to the universal hypothesis of spatial cognition which of the following statements are FALSE?
a) . Space is universal to all organisims
b) . Spatial understanding is innate
c) . Infants learn about space through interactions with their environment
d) All of the above statements are TRUE
c). Infants learn about space through interactions with their environment
Which of the following factors have been found to influence a reduction of body centred search strategies?
a) Presence of salient, direct landmarks near the hiding position
b) Visible geometric cues
c) Familiarity with the testing environment.
d) All of the above are TRUE
d) All of the above are TRUE
Linguistic relativity holds the hypothesis that language structure influences the speaker’s cognition. Evidence of this is seen in cross cultural studies comparing English speaking and Korean Speaking toddlers that has found?
a) Differences in the way that toddlers categorise containment and support
b) Differences in the way that toddlers categorise direction
c) Differences in the way that toddlers use geometric cues
d) No differences
a) Differences in the way that toddlers categorise containment and support
Identify the “geocentric” description
a) the glass is to the right of the plate
b) the glass is below the plate
c) the glass is west of the plate
d) the glass is above the plate
c) the glass is west of the plate
The earliest recognition of spatial categories observed in infancy is the
a) left/right relationship
b) the above/below relationship
c) the between relationship
d) the containment relationship
a) left/right relationship
A “retinocentric” Frame of Reference (FoR)
a) refers to a body centred representation
b) encodes locations as a series of eye movements
c) can be observed in infants under 3 months old
d) is useful for tasks involving manual action
b) encodes locations as a series of eye movements
Allocentric representation entails what
a) representing locations using geocentric terms
b) locating objects encoded with respect to the viewer’s body
c) representing locations with respect to an external framework such as landmarks
c) representing locations with respect to an external framework such as landmarks
Which one of the following statements is true?
a) Experiences with spatial categories do not help infants to identify spatial relationships
b) Cognition does not influence language use
c) Infants are equally sensitive to spatial categories across cultures
d) Language influences cognition
d) Language influences cognition
