Lesson 4.3.4.3
4.3.4.3 Baillargeon's research on early infant abilities Quiz: AQA Psychology, Unit 3
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What method did Baillargeon create to study object permanence in infants?
- Strange situation
- Habituation paradigm
- Visual cliff
- Violation of expectation
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In violation of expectation experiments, what dependent variable is measured?
- Crying frequency
- Heart rate
- Looking time
- Sucking rate
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What primary measure did Baillargeon use to test physical reasoning in infants?
- Looking time
- Motor response
- Vocalisation
- Sucking strength
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Compared to Piaget's timeline, Baillargeon showed object permanence develops when?
- At same age
- Much earlier
- After language acquisition
- Much later
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What is the understanding that one solid object cannot pass through another?
- Spatial awareness
- Object permanence
- Solidity
- Conservation
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What reaction is inferred when an infant looks longer at an impossible physical event?
- Frustration
- Boredom
- Surprise
- Fear
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According to Baillargeon, infants possess physical knowledge at what age compared to Piaget's claims?
- Stage-dependent age
- Same age
- Later age
- Earlier age
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What non-verbal measure is recorded in Baillargeon's violation of expectation research?
- Facial expression
- Sucking strength
- Heart rate
- Looking time
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Critics argue that longer looking times in infants may simply reflect a response to what?
- Fatigue
- Hunger
- Novelty
- Anxiety
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What experimental procedure compares infant reactions to possible and impossible physical events?
- Visual cliff experiment
- Violation of expectation
- Strange situation
- Clinical interview
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What system did Baillargeon propose infants possess to interpret the physical world?
- Physical reasoning system
- Language acquisition device
- Sensorimotor schema
- Working memory system
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Control events are used in violation of expectation tasks to rule out what alternative explanation?
- Stranger anxiety
- Novelty preference
- Motor fatigue
- Lack of attention
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What alternative factor might cause infants to look longer at impossible events in VOE tasks?
- Fear
- Novelty
- Fatigue
- Dislike
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Baillargeon's research suggests that basic understanding of the physical world is largely:
- Random
- Learned
- Absent
- Innate
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The understanding that an object continues to exist even when out of sight is called:
- Egocentrism
- Centration
- Conservation
- Object permanence
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In Baillargeon's famous drawbridge study, what impossible event was presented to infants?
- Rotating through block
- Vanishing into air
- Changing shape
- Floating upwards
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Why is the violation of expectation method superior to Piaget's search tasks for young infants?
- Avoids visual stimuli
- Requires no control
- Takes less time
- Avoids motor demands
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Why is measuring infant looking time considered a limitation by some psychologists?
- Highly invasive
- Unethical procedure
- Unreliable apparatus
- Indirect measure
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Baillargeon's theory that infants are born with innate physical knowledge reflects which approach?
- Nativist
- Behaviourist
- Humanist
- Empiricist
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In violation of expectation research, what do control events isolate?
- Infant visual acuity
- Physical rule violation
- Social cognitive ability
- Motor skill development
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