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1 What kinds of toys and activities would you recommend to caregivers who want to entertain infants while helping them develop skills in attention, memory, or categorization?

2 Recall from Chapter 1 that an important theme of development is that it is influenced by multiple contexts. How might contextual influences, such as family, neighborhood, sociocultural context, and even cohort or generation, influence attention, memory, categorization, and/or other aspects of cognition?

3 What are some of the challenges in studying how infants think and what they know? How have researchers addressed these issues? Can you identify criticisms to information processing researchers’ methods, findings, or conclusions?