What Did Research by Baillargeon Examining Infants' Attention to a Screen

question 117

Multiple Choice

What did research by Baillargeon examining infants' attention to a screen that rotated into the space occupied by hidden objects that were either tall or short demonstrate about infants' thinking about objects?

• A) Infants cannot mentally represent objects that are out of their view.
• B) Infants know that hidden objects still exist, but they are unable to remember their size.
• C) Infants are able to reason about some characteristics of unseen objects.
• D) Infants reach differently for objects depending on their size.

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Definitions:

Discrete Probability Distribution

A statistical function that describes the likelihood of each possible outcome of a discrete random variable occurring.

Mean

The average of a set of values, calculated by summing all the values and dividing by the number of values.

Discrete Random Variable

A random variable that has countable outcomes, such as the number of heads in a series of coin flips.

Poisson Distribution

A probability distribution that expresses the probability of a given number of events occurring in a fixed interval of time or space when these events occur with a known constant rate and independently of the time since the last event.