PSYC 354 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: 18 Months, Intentionality, Almost Surely
20 Jan 2017
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Describe forms of thinking, not defined by age (age of certain performances is variable) The mechanisms of development are more important than the ages at which they appear. Beginning of intelligence in practical activity (8), where intelligence is dependant on action on objects. Knowledge is not inborn within the child: sensorimotor sub-stages: Interaction consists of general patterns, such as sucking, rooting, grasping, touching, crying, limb movement. Not just reflexive, because infants get better at these skills with experience. Stage two: primary circular reactions (1-4 months) Repeating behaviours or actions that once happened by chance, such as grasping their foot or sucking their thumb. It is the coordination of two schemes that are integrated into a single whole action (looking and grasping, or reaching and sucking) Stage three: secondary circular reactions (4-8 months) Begins to learn that there is an effect of their action on their external environment, after seeing (by chance) that what they have done now creates an effect.
