PSY 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Cognitive Development, Psy, Object Permanence

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 001
• Professor: Dewin

Document Summary

Adolescence- psychological period of development between childhood and adulthood- teenage years in u. s. Cultural influence- in some cultures, childhood straight to adulthood- no adolescence stage. Jean piaget- infants begin at cognitively primitive level and progress in distinct stages. Piaget"s schema (schemata- plural) - basic unit of intellect- framework that organize interactions with environment; Assimilation- absorbing new information into existing schema ex: mom"s nipple to bottle (similar) Accomodation - developing new schema to fit ex: using spoon from nipple. After schemata, assimilation, and accommodation, big shift to piaget"s 4 stages. Differ qualitatively in way child reasons not amount. In fixed sequence- one stage before the next. Occur around the same age, regardless of culture (universal: sensorimotor: birth to 2 years, cognitive development- via sensory experience and motor skills. Reason babies put objects into mouth, touch : preoperational: 2 to 7 years. Use mental symbols (words, images) to represent objects and people (object permanence)