PSYCH 3AB3 Lecture 3: 3 - Cognitive Development
8 Dec 2015
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Assimilation the process in which people understand new information in terms of their current stage of cognitive development and schemes. Accommodation changes in existing ways of thinking and schemes that occur in response to new information and experiences: updating your way of thinking about things. Children move through a set of four distinct changes everyone goes through them in the same order. Each stage is discrete and qualitatively different from the other (qualitative your whole way of thinking changes; quantitative using the same mechanisms and methods of thinking, just getting better at it, improving the way you think) Once your in a stage, you"re in it, you have left the last one. Experience random motor movements, and over time learn that. Infants are experiencing things in terms of motor activity those lead to specific attitudes. They don"t have an understanding of object permanence the fact that objects still exist even when they"re out of sight.
