PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10.2: Introjection, Cognitive Development
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10. 2 infancy and childhood: cognitive and emotional development. Cognitive development: study of changes in memory, thought, and reasoning processes throughout life. Assimilation: fit new information into pre-existing schemas/beliefs they already possess: long haired person. Fit long-haired person into what you already know about girls. Accommodation: people modify beliefs based on experienced: modifying girls category- not a strictly long-haired person category. Objections to piaget"s theory: generally underestimated infants" abilities & their rates of development, strong emphasis on cognitive tasks overlooked sociocultural and biological elements of cognitive growth. Strange situation: test measuring infant attachment, by how they behave towards experiences that involve anxiety & comfort: mother & child play stranger comes in mother leaves mother comes back. Attachment styles: secure attachment: child checks in with caregiver occasionally for reassurance. Shows distress when caregiver leaves, distress relieved once caregiver comes back: insecure attachment, anxious/resistant- child depends too strongly on caregiver- clingy.
