PSYC 2P12 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: 18 Months, Intelligence Quotient, Mental Representation
27 Jan 2017
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Psychological structures: organized ways of making sense of experience. Change with age: action based patterns, later (cid:373)ove to (cid:862)thi(cid:374)ki(cid:374)g (cid:271)efore a(cid:272)ti(cid:374)g(cid:863) patter(cid:374) Adaptation: building schemes through direct interaction with environment. Assimilation: using current world schemes to interpret external world. Accommodation: adjusting old schemes and creating new ones to better fit environment. Equilibrium and disequilibrium: use assimilation and during equilibrium, disequilibrium prompts accommodation. Building schemes through sensory and motor exploration. Internal depictions of objects or events; deferred imitation. Understanding that objects continue to exist when out od sight: piaget: develops in sub stage 4. Not yet complete: a-not-b search error. Internal, mental depictions of objects, people, events, information: can manipulate with mind, permits deferred imitation and make-believe play. New research: 6 weeks facial imitation. Infants may be able to: discriminate quantities up to 3. Less attraction to novelty, better sustained attention after first year. Recall appears by first year; excellent in second year. Social contexts: other people contribute to cognitive development.
