PSY 0010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Anatomical Terms Of Motion, Secondary Sex Characteristic, Lawrence Kohlberg
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Infancy adulthood (emotional/social, cognitive, physical) [all interconnected] Fetal alcohol syndrome: a development disorder that stems from heavy alcohol use by the mother during pregnancy. Reflexes: specific patterns of motor response that are triggered by specific patterns of sensory stimulations; innate. Motor development: the emergence of the ability to execute physical action. Interested in how kids discover and look at the world. Cognitive development: the emergence of the ability to think and understand: how the physical world works, how their minds represent it, how other minds represent it. Sources of continuity: assimilation: the process by which people translate incoming information into a form they can understand. Adopt into a category that we already have: accommodation: the process by which people adapt current knowledge structures to new experiences. Piaget"s four stages of cognitive development: stage: Infant experiences world through movement and sense, develops schemas, begins to act intentionally, and shows evidence of understand object permanence.
