PSY100H1 Chapter 10: Chapter 10-Lifespan Development
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10. 2 infancy and childhood: cognitive and emotional development. American academy of pediatrics recommends: children younger than 2 years do not watch tv at all. Cognitive development: the study of changes in memory, thought, and reasoning processes that occur throughout the lifespan. Assimilation: conservative process, whereby people fit new information into the belief systems they already process. Accommodation: creative process whereby people modify their belief structures based on experience. The sensorimotor stage: living in the material world. 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. Language development, using symbols, pretend play, and mastering the concept of conservation. Inability to manipulate abstract info. is shown by testing their understanding of conservation: the knowledge that the quantity or amount of an object is not the same as the physical arrangement and appearance of that object.
