How are Baillargeon’s studies designed?
Baillargeon’s studies are designed to specifically identify learning mechanism for e.g. understanding gravity, solidity
Baillargeon’s studies are designed as experiments. Specifically, they are designed as violation-of-expectation (VOE) experiments. In these experiments, Baillargeon presents infants with a series of events that either match or violate their expectations about how objects behave in the physical world. In some experiments, Baillargeon varies the events within infants’ experience groups, and in others, she tests infants’ memory by presenting them with familiar and novel events. She then observes infants’ looking time and habituation (reduced looking time) to these events to determine whether they have detected the violations of their expectations. The purpose of these studies is to investigate infants’ understanding of the physical world and their cognitive capabilities in terms of object permanence, causal reasoning, and mental representation.
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