PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Urban Legend, Object Permanence, Egocentrism
30 Mar 2016
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Boy from popular tv show supposedly changes from a normal child to an adult who clearly wants to be very different from society (extremist) Biological-driven growth and development enabling a sequence o predictable cognitive (mental processes) and behavioral changes. Mainly observable in: brain development, motor development. Figuring out how the world works (developing models and concepts, problem solving) We don"t start out being able to think like adults. Kids make cute mistakes (eg. calling anything that swims fishy ) Schema: mental container that holds our experiences and organizes them according to similarities and differences. Assimilation: interpret new experiences in terms of our current understandings. New experiences are absorbed into the dog schema by including big and small dogs. Accommodation: adjust schemas to incorporate information provided by new experiences. New experiences lead to the modification of the animal schema, creating categories for cats and dogs. Development is a combination of nurture and nature.
