PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Behaviorism, Habituation, Object Permanence
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Nature is to nativism as nurture is to empiricism. Mental activities being association with thinking, knowing and remembering. Piaget believed that children are active thinkers, constantly trying to construct more advanced understandings of the word . Started with observation that development started in these stages. Schemas help us interpret new information and understand the world. Assimilation- where we try to fit things into our existence o could be about objects themselves, experiences, events. 2 year old girl learning the schema for cow from her picture books girl sees moose and calls it a cow . She is trying to assimilate this new animal into existing schema. Her mom tells her, no, it"s a moose girl accommodates her schema for large, shaggy animals and continues to modify that schema to include mommy moose , baby moose , and so forth. Progression from one step to the next results from some major event.
