PSYC 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Taste Bud, Middle Ear, Visual Acuity

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2110
• Professor: Maxine Wintre

Document Summary

Learned by the cerebral cortex: faster the habituation is correlated to language (2nd language) in the 2nd year of life and higher iq later in life. Correlated because it measures the speed at which information is processed, as well as attention, memory, and preference for novelty. 5: assumptions, invokes a biological: intelligence it is an adaptive human function, as-well as growing organized system, interactionist: cognitive develops as a interaction between the individual and his environment. Mental thinking process: adaption: the ability to use the environment for further maintenance of life and development. The function of assimilation and accommodation continuity to the environment how the child achieves equilibrium: assimilation: the process where the child interprets reality in his and her internal model of the world constructed from previous knowledge. Incorporate new information into our existing knowledge: accommodation: change the scheme because of new information.