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Instructions: Using a Microsoft Word document, complete 1 of the web exercises below

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Instructions: Using a Microsoft Word document, complete 1 of the web exercises below. The pieces of information highlighted in yellow are examples of what you will address in your written submission based on the information provided.  Once completed, make sure you title your submission with the same title of the web exercises selected and upload your assignment in the next learning module screen.    

Web Exercise #1: Baillargeon and De Vos' Research on Object Permanence

LO 6.1 Identify Piaget’s six substages of sensorimotor reasoning and summarize criticism of this perspective on infant and early childhood cognitive development.

Chapter 6 introduces students to the development of object permanence during the sensorimotor period. Piaget contends that object permanence begins to develop around 8 months and is completed by 12 months. Critics argue that infants develop the ability earlier than Piaget believed because Piaget failed to take into account several factors. Baillargeon and colleagues have conducted many studies on the development of object permanence, and a few of the articles are cited in your textbook. Based on the article  https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1130803.pdf?casa_token=6Gao-XIVTLkAAAAA:LDlSgn1gDqW-5JOQjMM2SUsZDyNHvfbjDpA7slymb5x4CKGILTuRXoJYQUaXpt5Xs0923Rp_qJQf6DvvRCKEmng7bYAVfWLnPZ3Xr16kkvfqAORHYpc respond to the following questions:

1.            What was the overall purpose of the set of studies described in this article?

2.            Why was the study important?

3.            What were the hypotheses?

4.            What is a violation of expectation?

5.            You previously learned about habituation. How was habituation used in this study? Why was it used?

Web Exercise #2: Post-Formal Reasoning

LO 6.4 Explain post-formal reasoning and how it compares with cognitive affective complexity.

Directions: Chapter 6 introduces students to post-formal reasoning in early adulthood. The purpose of this exercise is to give students more information about post-formal reasoning and help them understand how to apply this concept. Read information provided on the following websites and answer the questions below.

• https://psychologenie.com/postformal-thought-characteristics-examples
• http://www.apa.org/ed/precollege/ptn/2013/02/fishbowl-discussions.aspx

1. 1. How have these websites helped you better understand post-formal reasoning?
   2. Provide 2 examples of post-formal reasoning.

Web Exercise #3: Cognitive Change in Adulthood

LO 6.4: After reading your assigned materials, review the following websites for additional information https://www.learning-theories.com/bronfenbrenners-bioecological-model-bronfenbrenner.html https://www.psychologynoteshq.com/bronfenbrenner-ecological-theory/ Explain post-formal reasoning and how it compares with cognitive-affective complexity.  According to the textbook, there are many influences on cognitive change. Address the following questions:

1. What are some ways in which people differ in cognitive change?
2. What might influence these differences?
3. What biological or personal factors matter?
4. What are some of the contextual influences?
5. How might Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological theory influence cognitive change at the microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, and macrosystem levels?