PSYCH211 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: 18 Months, Language Acquisition Device, Information Processing
30 May 2017
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Psych 211- chapter 6: cognitive development in infancy and toddlerhood. Schemes: in piaget"s theory, a specific psychological structure/organized way of making sense of experience, that changes with age. Adaptation: involves building schemes 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 no capture the environment completely. Organization: a process that occurs internally, apart from direct contact with the environment. Once children form new schemes, they rearrange them, linking them with other schemes to create a strongly interconnected cognitive system. Circular reaction: provides a special means of adapting their first schemes. It involves stumbling onto a new experience caused by the baby"s own motor activity. The reaction is circular because, as the infant tries to repeat the event again and again, a sensorimotor response that originally occurred by chance strengthens into a new scheme.
