Psychology 2410A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Object Permanence, Soltyrei, 18 Months

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2410A/B
• Professor: Sandra Hessels

Document Summary

How children view the world at different stages of development. Schemes for strategies and plans: how to approach doing something. Assimilation: new information is added to existing schemes: all things are the same, example: car. Child"s scheme of a car: moving vehicle. Which also includes trucks and motorcycles: newborns assimilate all things that enter their mouth. Accommodation: schemes are adjusted to fit new information or experiences: child can identify particular information within a scheme, example: car, sucking different objects allows babies to identify and learn about their taste. Moving vehicles are categorized by cars, trucks and motor cycles. Organization: ordering thoughts into a system of similar behaviours/ thoughts into a higher order system. Sensorimotor stage: lasts from birth to 2 years old, seeing and hearing is connected with physical actions, building an understanding of the world, begins with reflex actions and ends with complex sensorimotor patterns. Sub-stages: simple reflexes first month after birth.