Infant+Development

Infant Development Tasks

Task 1

What do babies know? How do they perceive the world?

Listen to the podcast linked below and then post on the discussion tab for this page. You may react or reflect on the podcast information presented, respond to another students post or you may consider the challenge of understanding behavior and science in psychology. Make sure that you read prior posts and carry on a thread in a discussion.

Infant Development

Task 2 Take a look at the Piaget stages below.

[|Stage 1 - Sensorimotor - Object Permanance]

[|Stage 2 - Preoperational - Lack of Conservation]

Stage 3 - Concrete - Reversability

Stage 4 - Formal - Deductive Reasoning

Assignment 4.4 - To make your own quiz go to the link below quizlet

Below are the links for the two articles that you should peruse to decide which on you are interested in reading. The Pink Brain/ Blue Brain has 4 different article pieces linked below. They are short but all 4 must be read in order to complete the assignment. Article 1 - Infants and Gender The Myth of Pink & Blue Brain Gurian retort of Pink & Blue 1 Eliot's Response to Gurian Gurian retort 2
 * Task 3 - Honors Assignment**

Article 2 - Infants and Race Babies & Race

Writing Component After reading the article of your choice above, you need to: 1. Write a 1-2 page analysis of the argument presented. Take a stand on the strength of the hypothesis and evidence presented. 2.Critically assess the experiments and studies presented as evidence. In order for you to feel completely confident that the research methods are legitimate, what questions would you like answered about the evidence used in this article. Think carefully and critically about this. There are both basic questions that would be worthwhile to know as well as sophisticated thoughtful questions.

Task 4 - Attachment Here are some links to see the research presented in this part of the text. Both researchers looked at attachment. Take a look at their work below. What do you think? Post a comment or a question on the discussion tab at the top of this page. Make sure that you are on the appropriate thread about attachment and not on the old discussion about the podcast. Harlow's Monkeys Harlow 1 Harlow 2 Harlow 3

Mary Ainsworth - Strange Situation Ainsworth 1 Ainsworth 2

Lorenzo - Imprinting Dog & Duck Geese

Check out these ringtones. I can only hear the first 2. Yikes Teenage Ringtones
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