ED PSYCH 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Object Permanence, 18 Months, Cerebral Cortex
3 Mar 2017
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Cognition: (n) the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses. Schemas: organized ways of making sense of experience. Using patterns we see in the world to categorize the world around us. Adaption: building schemas through direct interaction with the environment. Assimilation: we use our current schemes to interpret the external world. Accommodation: we create new schemes or adjust old ones after noticing that our current ways of thinking do not capture the environment. When children are not changing much, they assimilate more than they. During times of rapid cognitive change, children shift from assimilation to. Internal process of rearranging and linking together schemes to create a. Understanding connection between dropping-throwing and nearness- strongly interconnected cognitive system. farness. Children in the first two years of life think with their eyes, ears, and. Cannot yet carry out many activities inside their heads. Babies suck, grasp, and look regardless of the environment around them.
