Question 1

Take the position of either an empiricist or a nativist, briefly explain your approach, and, then, describe how an infant's ability to categorize emerges according to your view.

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Question 2

Use the example of the kingfisher (a bird) to take a stance on whether researchers can "know" what an infant is thinking.

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Question 3

Given your understanding of development and the milestones reached in infancy, explain how targeting the first few years of an infant's life for social policy may not be the best approach, except in one particular instance.

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Question 4

Briefly describe a design to assess intermodal sensing of number and what that ability means.

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Question 5

Argue that infants do think about the physical world.Be sure to include five principles that might guide infants' thinking about physical objects to support your claims, and generally how research has supported this view.

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Question 6

Briefly explain how it is that dishabituation studies are used to examine infants' understanding of social agents' goals, and how the interpretation of these findings can be difficult.

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Question 7

Vanessa watches two blocks move: first one, then the other, without touching each other.Next, she watches two people move: first one, then the other, without touching each other.Which scenario would you expect her to dishabituate more strongly to and why?

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Question 8

How is spatial representation in infants encoded, and how are these encoded concepts tied to different abilities/expectations?

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Question 9

Briefly describe and track a child's development through Piaget's stages.

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Question 10

Briefly describe how Piaget suggested infants develop cognitively through the process of adaptation.Include examples.

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Question 11

What are four main differences between social agents and inanimate objects that seem to guide infants' thinking?

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Question 12

Briefly describe an infant making the A-not-B error.What would Piaget say making this error means?

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Question 13

Describe spatial and temporal contiguity and how these ideas are important for understanding infants' understanding of causation.Refer to the use of the red and green blocks described in the text.

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Question 14

Describe how an infant's manipulation of objects progresses through most of the sensorimotor period (that is, through the first year and a half of life).

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Quiz 5: Coming to Understand the Physical World