PSYCH 3AB3 Chapter 3: Topic 3 - Cognitive Development
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Cognitive development the ways in which the thinking and process changes with age and experience. He concluded that the way children think shifts in a regular pattern from one system of logic to another. Saw cognitive development as the product of an active interaction between the child"s cognitive level and the environment: the child continually tries to construct a better, more adaptive. Cognitive stage a distinctive way of thinking, typical of a particular understanding of the world age and based on a particular system of logic. Assimilation the process by which one tries to understand a new experience by making it fit with existing knowledge or understandings. Accommodation the process of changing one"s cognitive structures in response to new information or experiences. Sensorimotor stage: infancy, experience of the world is based on perceptions and motor activity. Preoperational stage: 2-7 years old, marked by the emergence of an ability to represent objects and events symbolically.