Two tasks are often used to measure whether infants can tell the difference between two categories: the object-examining task and the sequential touching task. Compare and contrast these empirical...

Two tasks are often used to measure whether infants can tell the difference between two categories: the object-examining task and the sequential touching task. Compare and contrast these empirical approaches.

What is the specific procedure in each task? What is the logic behind each approach, in terms of what it allows us to conclude about infants’ knowledge of categories? What is similar between the two tasks, and what is different between the two tasks?

part ii)

if you were testing for whether a 10-month-old baby knew the difference between cats and dogs, which of the previous methods would most likely yield results that suggest that the baby does know the difference between these categories?