PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cognitive Development, Egocentrism, 18 Months
7 Sep 2015
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The basic action of knowing, including physical and mental actions. Schemes build on a small repository of simple sensory or motor schemes, such as taste and sucking: organization". As people act on their environments, an inborn mental process causes them to drive generalizable schemes from specific experience. The process of taking in, of absorbing some event or experience and making it part of a scheme. Pay attention to things we already have schemes for. Changing a scheme as a result of new information taken in, changing understanding, share characteristic, not the same: equilibration. The process of bringing assimilation and accommodation into balance: equilibration leads to 4 stages of cognitive development. The child uses sensory and motor skills to act on the environment. Preoperational stage- 18 months to 6 years. Young children use symbolic thinking, such as language. Use words to represent things that around them. Limitation- inability to pay attention to all information.
