PSYC 2500H Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Dual Representation, Imaginary Audience, Heredity

• School: Trent University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2500H
• Professor: Geoffrey Navara

Document Summary

An inborn tendency to adjust to the demands of the environment. The rapid increase in physical growth that marks the beginning of adolescence. Attributing life and lifelike qualities to inanimate objects. Tendency of 8-12 month olds to search for hidden objects where they previously found it even have they have seen in move to a new location. A lack of sufficient oxygen to the brain, may result in neurological damage or death. Ability to keep the true properties or characteristics of an object in mind despite the deceptive appearance that the object has assumed; notably lacking among young children during the preconceptual period. Piaget"s term for the process by which children interpret new experiences by incorporating them into their existing schemes. The process whereby we explain and predict what people do based on what we understand their desires and beliefs to be.