Gopnik and colleages' (2001) study of two-year-old children's ability to draw inferences from experience with a "blicket detector" suggests that ___
a. children posit causal relations on the basis of patterns of covariation
b. children can learn as association between an object and an event that covary
c. children construct domain-specific knowledge of events that covary
d. children vary in their ability to use covariation as an indicator of causality
A
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The discussion of insight in problem solving pointed out that
a. gestalt psychologists emphasized the importance of insight in solving problems. b. behaviorist psychologists were especially interested in the kinds of problems that require insight. c. when people solve insight problems, their confidence builds gradually as they work on the solution to a problem. d. people solve noninsight problems more quickly when they realize that their basic assumptions are not appropriate.
The brain center for hearing is in the __________ lobe
a. temporal b. parietal c. occipital d. frontal
Baillargeon and colleagues ( 1987; 1991 ) have conducted several classic studies in which young,
premobile infants are shown "impossible" events, such as the appearance of a car passing through a barrier, only to reappear on the other side. How do these researchers interpret the results of their work? A) That an infant's understanding of object permanence is not mastered until six months of age. B) The fact that the premobile infant shows "surprise" when the object reappears means that infants understand object permanence earlier than Piaget once thought. C) The neural mechanisms responsible for visual searching and reaching-grasping are the same. D) Infants will only show "surprise" over reappearance of the object if they are familiar with it.