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1. What is an affordance, & how does an affordance depend on the individual & on the individual's environment?
2. Distinguish between dynamic perception & object permanence?
3. In what ways can infants coordinate their perceptions of the same object through different senses?
4. Give an example of the early growth of categorization skills.
5. How can a scientist show that infants have object permanence even before infants are capable of searching for a hidden object?
6. How good is the long-term memory of young infants,&what specifics strengthen their memory?
7. Explain the link between the understanding of cause-and-effect relationships&the beginning of problem solving ability.
8. What emphasis did Piaget bring to the study of cognitive development?
9. Describe how changes in a baby's actions&behaviors over the first 2 years of life reveal the growth of sensorimotor intelligence.
10. What are the major milestones in the growth of language ability in infancy, & when, typically, are these milestones reached?
11. What are the major factors that promote language acquisition?
12. How does baby talk differ from adult speech,& why do the differences exist?
13. In your experience what is the most surprising cognitive ability that a toddler (one you know of) has exhibited, &, from what you know of the context, how was that ability acquired?
Human Growth & Development
Robert C. Gates
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