PSY210H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Primitive Reflexes, Baby Bottle
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Cognition: refers to thinking, including language, learning, memory and intelligence. Studied by jean piaget > validated by current research on infant"s cognitive abilities. Piaget"s first stage of cognitive development characterized by learning through senses and motor actions. Applies thinking of infants through these senses. These are responses to their own body (sucking, grasping, staring, listening) Reactions that involve the infant"s own body. Simple inborn actions and reactions that are all that newborns can use for sensory motor intelligence. Sensations become perceptions which become cognitions - reflexes become deliberate. First acquired adaptation - in this stage acquired adaptations change from reflexes to deliberate actions. Adaptation: repeated reflexes provide information about what the body does and how it feels. Or reflexes and senses to the specific content. Taking in new information and responding to it - becomes part of the thinking process: happens in two ways, assimilation: Taking in new information by incorporating it into previous schemas: accommodation:
