PSY BEH 101D Lecture Notes - Lecture 42: Psy, Intentionality
17 Dec 2019
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Notes: birth- 2 years old, infants construct an understanding of the world by coordinating sensory experiences (seeing and hearing) with physical, motoric actions, substages, simple reflexes. Sensation and action are coordinated primarily through reflexive behaviors, such as rooting and sucking. Soon, the infant might suck when the bottle or nipple is only nearby: first habits and primary circular reactions. Infant coordinates sensation and two types of schedules: habits and primary circular reactions: a habit is a scheme bases on a reflex that has become completely separated from its eliciting stimulus, circular reaction is a repetitive action. Primary circular reaction a scheme based on the attempt to reproduce an event that initially occurred by chance: example: an infant accidentally sucks his fingers when they are placed near his mouth. Later, he searches for his fingers to suck them again: secondary circular reactions preoccupation with the self. Infant becomes more object oriented, moving beyond.
