FRHD 2270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Cognitive Development, 18 Months, Deductive Reasoning

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 2270
• Professor: Robyn Pitman

Document Summary

Children are scientists: naturally curious, make sense of their world construct own understanding, create their own theories some are incomplete. Assimilation: new experiences incorporated into existing theories (i. e. dog licking face) Accommodation: theories are modified based on experience (i. e. first encounter with a cat) Equilibrium: assimilation experiences into existing theories, comfortable state. Disequilibrium: more accommodation occurs causes cognitive discomfort, replace old theories with new ones, return to equilibrium. Schemes mental structures: organized ways of making sense of experience, created through equilibrium, active and always changing. Assumptions: move through all 4 stages in exact sequence (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t skip a stage, ages are approximate could move through stages slower or faster (but have to go through all of them, discontinuous/stage theory of development. **do(cid:374)"t (cid:374)eed to k(cid:374)o(cid:449) e(cid:454)a(cid:272)t ages, just (cid:374)a(cid:373)es a(cid:374)d (cid:449)hat is o(cid:272)(cid:272)u(cid:396)(cid:396)i(cid:374)g du(cid:396)i(cid:374)g ea(cid:272)h stage** Sensorimotor stage (cid:894)(cid:862)se(cid:374)ser(cid:863)(cid:895) (cid:862)thi(cid:374)k(cid:863) (cid:449)ith e(cid:455)es, ea(cid:396)s, a(cid:374)d ha(cid:374)ds a(cid:374)d othe(cid:396) se(cid:374)so(cid:396)(cid:455) e(cid:395)uip(cid:373)e(cid:374)t. Move from simple reflexes to symbolic processing.