Infants are far more competent than once believed, but adolescents and adults are less competent than once believed. Describe one competency exhibited by infants and one incorrect belief held by adolescents and adults
What will be an ideal response?
Infants remember stories that have been read to them, as evidenced by their preference to listen to stories that they've heard before. Infants have a rudimentary understanding of time, space, and number. Infants detect and extract regularities in patterned input. Adults believe that when a car moves around an oval track, both doors move at the same speed. Most adolescents solve conflict-weight and conflict-distance balance-scale problems incorrectly. Adults ignore the randomness of events if one event is more representative (e.g., they are more likely to say that a couple will have "girl, boy, boy, girl, boy, girl" rather than "girl, girl, girl, boy, boy, boy").
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