Psychology 2040A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Developmental Psychology, Joint Attention, 18 Months

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2040A/B
• Professor: hessels

Document Summary

Saturday, november 4, 2017 developmental psychology textbook notes chapter 5 cognitive development in infancy and toddlerhood. Speci c psychological structures organnized ways of making sense of experience schemes. 2 processes; adaption and organization account for changes in schemes: adaption involves building schemes through direct interaction with the environment. Assimilation use our current schemes to interprets the external world. Accommodation create new schemes or adjust old ones after noticing that our current ways of thinking do not capture the environment completely. When children aren"t changing much they assimilate more than they accommodate equilibrium: organization a process that occurs internally, apart from direct contact with the environment. Once children form new schemes, they rearrange them, linking them with other schemes to create a strongly interconnected cog. system. The sensorimotor stage: according to piaget, at birth infants know so little that they can"t explore purposefully, circular reaction provides a special means of adapting their rst schemes.