When students have studied the material in the
chapter, they will be able to answer the following: - Introduction
- What are some major characteristics of cognitive development in infancy?
- How do built-in abilities and experience interact in infants' cognitive development?
- How might infants' increasing cognitive abilities affect their abilities to interact with others and form social relationships?
- Piaget's theory of infant cognitive development
- Explain the major assumptions and processes in Piaget's theory of infant cognitive development.
- Describe the six stages in Piaget's theory of infant cognitive development.
- Challenges to Piaget's theory
- What issues have other researchers raised about Piaget's theory?
- Infants' understanding of the physical world
- What did Piaget and more recent researchers say about the development of the object concept?
- Summarize the development of infants' understanding of causality and other relations between objects, number, and categorization.
- Memory development in infancy
- Summarize the development of memory abilities in early and later infancy.
- How is brain development involved in infant memory?
- Social context and cognitive development in infancy
- How does social context influence cognitive development in infancy?
- Individual differences in infant cognitive skills
- How well do measures of individual differences in infant cognitive skills predict later intelligence?
- Advances and limitations: an overview
- Summarize the major advances and limitations in cognitive development during the first two years of life.
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