PSYCH 2AA3 Chapter Notes -Explicit Memory, Myelin, Cerebral Cortex

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 2AA3
• Professor: Jeff Landry

Document Summary

Assimilation: process by which ppl understand an experience in terms of their stg of cognitive dev & way of thinking. Initial stg of cognitive dev; broken down into. 1: exact timing of a stg reflects the interaction btwn infant"s lvl of physical maturation & nature of the social env in which the child is being raised other behaviour reflects the more advanced stg. Infants do not suddenly shift from one stage of cognitive development to the next. Piaget argues there is a period of transition in which behaviour reflects one stg, while. Stg 4 object permanence is the realization that ppl & objects exist even when. The infant learns that the object exists even when it cannot be seen. A few months later during substage 4, as soon as his mother places the rattle. Piaget acknowledged that children"s transitions btwn stgs are gradual, critics.