PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes -Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky, Object Permanence

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Heather Jenkins

Document Summary

Head is large - growth proceeds towards lower body. Visual deprivation can permanently damage visual abilities. Sensitive/critical periods can be up to 10 years. Cognition refers to all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. Brain builds schemas (concepts or mental molds into which we pour our experiences) to achieve understanding. Schemas are modified to create equilibrium between environment and understanding. We assimilate new experiences into existing schemas. We adjust, or accomodate our schemas to incorporate information provided by new schemas; causing existing schemas to change. Jean piaget believed that cognitive development: is a combination of nature and nurture. Children grow by maturing as well as by learning through interacting/playing with the environment: is not one continuous progression of change. Children make leaps in cognitive abilities from one stage of development to the next. Understand world through sensory experiences and physical interactions with objects (looking, hearing, touching, mouthing, grasping)