PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Object Permanence, Lev Vygotsky

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Dwayne Pare

Document Summary

Organized units of knowledge about objects, events, and actions. Involves two process: assimilation is the interpretation of new experiences in terms of present schemas, accommodation is the modification of present schemas to fit with new experiences. For example, a child may call all four-legged (cid:272)reatures (cid:862)doggie(cid:863: the child learns he needs to accommodate (i. e. , change) his schemes, as only one type of four-legged (cid:272)reature is (cid:862)dog(cid:863) It is through a(cid:272)(cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)odatio(cid:374) that the (cid:374)u(cid:373)(cid:271)er a(cid:374)d (cid:272)o(cid:373)ple(cid:454)it(cid:455) of a (cid:272)hild"s schemes increase and learning occurs. The notion of maturation, and the stage like (think prerequisites) nature of cognitive maturation. The importance of operations, schematas, and the processes of assimilation versus accommodation. The senorimotor period: cognition at this stage is closely tied to external stimulation, and u(cid:374)dersta(cid:374)di(cid:374)g (cid:272)hara(cid:272)teristi(cid:272)s of o(cid:271)je(cid:272)ts (cid:272)lassi(cid:272) e(cid:454)a(cid:373)ple is object permanence. The preoperational period: here the child begins learning how to think logically and how to use s(cid:455)(cid:373)(cid:271)ols espe(cid:272)iall(cid:455) la(cid:374)guage.