PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10.2: Harry Harlow, Introjection, Mary Ainsworth

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

Document Summary

10. 2 - infancy and childhood: cognitive and emotional. Cognitive development - the study of changes in memory, thought, and reasoning process that occur throughout the lifespan. Assimilation - a conservative process whereby people fit new information the belief system they already possess. Accommodation - a creative process whereby people modify their belief structures based on experience. Sensorimotor stage - (birth-2) during which infants" thinking about and exploration of the world are based on immediate sensory and motor experiences. Object permanence - the ability to understand that objects exist even when they cannot be directly perceived. Preoperational stage - (age 2-7) language development, using symbols, pretend play, and mastering the concept of conservation. Conservation - the knowledge that the quantity/amount of an object is not the same as the physical arrangement and appearance of that object. Concrete operational stage - (ages 7-11) when children develop skills in logical thinking and manipulating numbers. The formal operational stage: abstract and hypothetical thought.