DANCEST 805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Intentionality, Endocrine System, Visual Cortex
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Stages of neuronal growth in the brain of an infant (according to loosch, 1999) Areas of development: motoric, behavioural, cognitive, personality, self, moral. Social development: socialisation: primary (family, secondary (school, peers) tertiary (work) Basic processes in cognitive growth: assimilation: modifies new environmental information to fit into what is already, accomodation: restructures or modifies the child s existing schemes so that new known information is accounted for more completely. They strive for overcoming this disequilibrium through: sounds weird learning. Child begins life with small number of sensorimotor sequences. Child develops object permanence and the beginnings of symbolic thought. Child s thought is marked by egocentrism and centration. Child has improved ability to use symbolic thought. Child can reason with respect to concrete, physical objects. 11-x child develops capacity for abstract reasoning and hypothetical thinking. Object permanence: understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be observed (seen, heard, touched, smelled or sensed in any way).
