W5D2 - Guest Lecturer Flashcards
(9 cards)
What did the guest lecturer ask about children?
Develop a general understanding of emotions and use others’ emotion to learn about specific people and things.
What were the methods the guest lecturer use?
What infants look at
What children think and say
What children and infants do
A violation of expectations suggests you may need to ____________ to be more accurate.
explore and learn
When the target object behaved normally, the baby looked at ____________
the new object.
The baby looked at the target object when it ____________
violated their expectations.
The baby would play with the object more that ____________
violated their expectations.
How do explanations of events that violated infants’ expectations change their behavior?
Abolished surprised-induced exploration.
What’s the Goldilocks Effect?
When sequences get too complex, infants were more likely to look away from the screen.
Does surprise always attract attention?
No. Infants pay attention to learning progress, and look away when they’re failing to learn from unpredictable events.
