Information-processing approach

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  • The information-processing approach in infancy focuses on how babies learn and process information. It breaks down cognitive development into smaller skills, like recognizing faces or understanding language, to understand how babies learn and grow.
  • "Visual preference" refers to the tendency of infants to spend more time looking at one sight compared to another. It's like when a baby shows a preference for looking at a colorful toy rather than a plain one, indicating their interest or attraction towards specific visual stimuli.
  • "Visual recognition memory" is the ability to recognize and distinguish a familiar visual stimulus from an unfamiliar one when they are both presented simultaneously. It's like remembering a toy you've seen before when it's shown alongside a new one. This ability indicates the baby's memory for visual information.
  • "Joint attention" refers to when two or more individuals share their focus on the same object or event, usually initiated by eye gaze or pointing. It's like when a baby and caregiver both look at and point to a colorful picture book together, showing that they are paying attention to the same thing.
  • "Cross-modal transfer" is the ability to use information obtained through one sense to guide another sense. It's like when a baby learns to recognize the sound of a rattle and then looks in the direction of the sound when they hear it, showing that they've connected the auditory information with their visual perception.
  • "Violation-of-expectation" is a research method used to study infant cognition. In this method, if an infant shows renewed interest or attention (dishabituation) to a stimulus that contradicts their previous experience or expectations, it suggests that the infant recognizes the new stimulus as surprising. It's like when a baby sees an unexpected event, like a ball passing through a solid wall in a puppet show, and shows heightened interest or surprise, indicating that they have some understanding of the unexpectedness of the event.