20 Questions
What percentage of male undergraduates failed to represent what the water line would look like after being tilted in the formal operations test?
50%
Who argued that Piaget's finding on object permanence was rooted in a lack of motor ability in infants?
Renée Baillargeon
What is the term for the understanding that objects continue to exist when hidden?
Object permanence
What is the name of the paradigm used in studies to demonstrate infants' understanding of object permanence?
Dishabituation paradigm
What is the term for the understanding that people can have different beliefs and mental states than one's own?
Theory of mind
What type of neural network can be used to model object permanence?
Recurrent neural network (RNN)
What is the term for the ability to understand other people's mental states?
Mindreading
What is the age range at which children typically begin to show an understanding of false belief in the false belief task?
3-4 years
What is the term for the ability to represent another person's representation of the world?
Metarepresentation
What is the term for the shared attention mechanism that occurs when infants look at objects because they see that another person is looking at that object?
Joint attention
What is the primary reason why younger infants who have not had experience crawling do not show fear in the visual cliff experiment?
They lack the experience of heights and depths
According to Piaget, what is the primary characteristic of the pre-operational stage of cognitive development?
The ability to symbolize objects and events that are absent
What is the primary accomplishment of the sensorimotor stage of cognitive development, according to Piaget?
The development of object permanence
What is the primary characteristic of the formal operations stage of cognitive development, according to Piaget?
The ability to think about abstract concepts
What is the primary difference between the pre-operational and concrete operations stages of cognitive development, according to Piaget?
The development of higher order schemas called operations
According to Piaget, what is the primary difference between the sensorimotor and pre-operational stages of cognitive development?
The ability to symbolize objects and events that are absent
What is the primary example of the concrete operations stage of cognitive development, according to Piaget?
All of the above
What is the primary weakness of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development?
It does not account for individual differences in cognitive development
According to Piaget, what is the primary characteristic of the egocentric thinking in the pre-operational stage?
The inability to see things from different points of view
What is the primary example of the sensorimotor stage of cognitive development, according to Piaget?
The game of peek-a-boo
Explore the relationship between crawling experience and fear of heights in infants, and how it relates to Piaget's theory of cognitive development. Learn how infants develop wariness of heights and how it differs between crawlers and non-crawlers. Understand the stages of cognitive development according to Piaget's theory.
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