PSY-PC 2600 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Proportional Reasoning, Object Permanence, Egocentrism
27 Feb 2019
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Cognitive development - systematic changes in the mental processes underlying all learning and performance. Young children"s mental processes are qualitatively different from that of older children/adults. Cognitive constructivism - new understandings result from the active and creative processing of information in the environment by the individual mind, which operates under the constraints of its mental maturation and life opportunities. Genetic epistemology - human biology and philosophy. Equilibration - incorporate new or disparate knowledge and experiences into their existing knowledge structures. Assimilation - new information or experiences absorbed by existing knowledge structures. Preexisting knowledge was vague enough to expand to include this. Tendency to use new understandings - functional assimilation. Accommodation - existing schemes must be tweaked or modified if the new and conflicting information is to become part of one"s internal mental world. Reflex modification (sucking differently on thumb and nipple) Primary circular reactions (outcomes that have favorable reactions get repeated)
