A 5-month-old infant regularly sees her father turn on the television with a remote. She is unable to figure out the cause-effect relationship (i.e. what made the television turn on) because of a lack of:
a. Covariation
b. Precedence
c. Physical Contiguity
d. Temporal Contiguity

Question

A 5-month-old infant regularly sees her father turn on the television with a remote. She is unable to figure out the cause-effect relationship (i.e. what made the television turn on) because of a lack of:
a. Covariation
b. Precedence
c. Physical Contiguity
d. Temporal Contiguity

kittiwitti1 · Answer

I think this is a Sciences question... specifically $\text{Biology}$. The link to that forum is here: math.openstudy.com/groups/biology

But anyway... what do you have so far? Any ideas?

bmk614 · Answer

Is this psychology?

kittiwitti1 · Answer

Oops, I meant Psychology*
But nobody ever goes on that forum so I think it will be fine in Biology lol

mony01 · Answer

I think its contiguity but i don't know which one. i thought it was spatial contiguity but is not in the answer section.

kittiwitti1 · Answer

Well, I believe physical usually has to do with kinesthetic, or "doing"
Here the infant is just observing an action, so that probably wouldn't fit.

bmk614 · Answer

I am pretty sure this is Temporal Contiguity. That is when two stimuli happen at about the same time and there forms an association with each other.

kittiwitti1 · Answer

^

mony01 · Answer

oh ok I see. Thanks!

kittiwitti1 · Answer

You're welcome, $\text{happy OpenStudying}$ :)

bmk614 · Answer

No problem!