baillargeon

• baillargeon is a natavist psychologist - which means that there are an innate response to development
• baillargeons ideas about piaget - babies can do more than piaget suggests - piaget oversimplified the theory
• 3 main ideas - object permenance - violation of expectation - primary physical primacy reasoning systems
• voe = violation of expectation
• baillargeon - carrot task - children as young as 3 months showed object permenance - able to recognise that the carrot should be there - witnessed an impossible event
• carrot task shows that paiget underestimated infant abilities - children much younger can show object permenance
• prs - physical reasoning system
• prs - infants are equipped from birth with certain mechanisms to learn from experiences - our inital primary understanding develops and becomes more sophisticated as we learn
• principle of occlusion - babies know what they should see
• violation of expectation - when the children do not see the bunny through the window
• crit - hard to researc babies and establish causation due to unpredictable behaviour
• crit - researching the behaviour through inferences which makes it less objective
• crit - lack of internal validity - they were researching the levels of surprise not object permenance
• crit - limited validity - bremner - challenged object permenance - surprise didn't mean they understand
• pro - psr supported hespos and vanmarle - all have a basic understanding of how the world works
• pro - high reliability - lab study with controlled variables