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In the lectures, a video clip showed an infant’s eye tracking movements while watching an unmoving blue rectangle and a green ball crossing back and forth across the screen. What did the eye tracking movements indicate?

To demonstrate motor adaptation, Dr. Church-Lang presented a clip of her daughter throwing a ball at a target as she alternated between wearing and not wearing prism glasses. Which of the following is UNASSOCIATED with the child hitting the target by the end of the demonstration?

According to the lecture, what reasons would crawlers have to transition to walking?

What are limitations of Piaget’s theories?

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In the standard graphic of Vygotsky’s zone of proximal development, as seen in the lecture slides, which two variables are on the X and Y axes, signifying what is being measured in comparison?

Each of the following statements about experience-expectant plasticity is true EXCEPT:

Experience-dependent plasticity is associated with…

In two or three sentences, what might you say to convince someone that “baby in a box” should become a universal concept in the United States?

According to Piaget, when a child incorporates new information into existing schemas without changing the schema, this process is called __________. Conversely, when a child modifies existing schemas to incorporate new information, it is known as __________.