HD 1004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: 18 Months, Baby Talk, Aphasia
11 Aug 2016
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Adaptation: actively create mental structures to adapt to new environments. Schemes: actions or mental representation that organize knowledge: assimilation: incorporation of new information into existing schemes, accommodation: adjusting schemes to fit new information and experiences. Organization: grouping isolated behaviors and thoughts in higher-order system. Equilibration: the mechanism that explain how children shift from one stage of thought to the next (using assimilation and accommodation to produce cognitive changes) Object permanence: understanding that objects continue to exist, even when they cannot directly see, heard or touched. Don"t need to memorize but should know. Infants go from simple tasks to more complex tasks. Was not specific of how infants learn. Infants are much more competent then piaget thought. A-not-b error: this occurs when infants make the mistake of selecting the familiar hiding place: may be because of failure of memory or tend to repeated previous motor behavior. Core knowledge: infants are born with domain-specific innate knowledge systems.
