PSYC 3440 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: 18 Months, Critical Period Hypothesis, Phoneme
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Piaget domain general, stage theory of development. A constructivist theory in that piaget argued that people construct knowledge by interacting with their environment. Changes occur in cognitive structures due to maturation and adaptation assimilation (intergrating new information) and accommodation (changing cognitive structures: sensorimotor stage (reflexes, pre-operational (egocrentric, concrete operations, formal operations. Neo-piagetian theories are based on at least one aspect of piaget"s work. Information processing is based on the metaphor of the mind as a computer. Sociocultural theorists argue that environment has a very important role in development, and that the main impact of culture occurs through social interaction. What is memory: memory can be divided into short-term memory and long-term memory. Short-term memory contains information that is currently active or in consciousness. Has a duration of up to 20 seconds. Long-term memory is our permanent store of information, and is made up of semantic memory, episodic memory and procedural memory.
