Infants' Physical World

In response to this article I have to say it helped to solidify the ideas that we went over in the class lectures. I still have a hard time with the concept that children are born with a "blank slate". It doesn't really seem to make sense that they would be able to detect an event violation even with their poor vision. So this must mean that they do have certain abilities that were inset before they were born. I do however like the concept this article presented with the different event categories such as: occlusion, containment, and covering. It was interesting to find out that when presented with two different categories a child of 7 1/2 months can only see one violation instead of both violations but that a child of 9 months can detect both violations.
I wonder if the children that are being tested are actually becoming slightly habituated to the events that they are viewing over and over again or if they are truely are interested in what they are viewing? It would see more realistic to use a brain wave measureing devise to measure the reaction their brain is having to the different stimulus. That would seem to be a way to know for sure if they are reacting to the violation or maybe they are just bored. This article in particular didn't go over exactly how eyesight might effect the results of children of a certain age. It seems there are many different factors that should be taken into account when testing children's physical world in order to test their true ability.