PSYB20H3 Chapter Notes -Genetic Epistemology, Cognitive Development, 18 Months
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Chapter 8 - cognitive development: piaget"s theory, case"s neo-piagetian. Children enter the world with some reflexes through which they interpret their surroundings. In so doing, she has modified (accommodated) her scheme for four-legged animals to include a new category of experience horses. So two inborn activities organization and adaptation make it possible for children to construct progressively greater understandings of the world they live in. Piaget"s stages of cognitive development: stages of intellectual growth, represent qualitatively different levels of functioning and form what piaget calls an invariant developmental sequence. Fall 2022: called primary because they are the first motor habits to appear and. Circular because they are repetitive: secondary circular reactions (4 to 8 months): In this case, the act of lifting the cushion is not a pleasurable response in itself, nor is it executed by chance. Infants begin to actively experiment with objects and try to invent new methods of solving problems or reproducing interesting results.
