PSYCO105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Mary Ainsworth, Cognitive Development, Deeper Understanding
15 Oct 2016
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The exam viewing is on friday, october 14th from 1-2pm. Schemas: theories about or models of the way the world works. Assimilation: the process by which infants apply their schemas in novel situations. Accommodation: the process by which infants revise their schemas in light of new information. Piaget"s ndings may have been due to a lack of motor skill not lack of object presence theory. Pre-operational stage: the stage of development that begins at about 2 years and ends at. 6 years, in which children have a preliminary understanding of the physical world around us, but we can"t perform concrete operations. Concrete operational stage: begin to understand that the world appears in not necessarily the way the world really is. Begin to solve physical problems, and begin to realize that their minds contain mental representations that refer to things in the real world.
