PSY 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Behaviorism, Noam Chomsky, Language Processing In The Brain
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Piaget was the first scientist/developmentalist to posit that babies are learning. Circular reaction - loop of sensation, perception, and cognition, with no. Refers to infant thinking processes that rely on their senses and motor skills. Suck anything that first touches their lips. Develop cognition to suck some ways for hunger, others for comfort, and don"t suck just anything anymore. Babies can use signs at this age, like (cid:396)eat(cid:397) and (cid:396)more(cid:397) Happens for blind babies as well, search for objects they hear. A - not - b error occurs at 18 months. Start to look under and around for fallen toys. Will look for the same object under one thing rather than the second even if it was shown and placed right in front of them. Think through how to achieve the goal with knowledge of. 18 - 24 months previous experience and with imagination. Because they can combine ideas, they can pretend.
