01:830:101 Lecture 7: Topic 7 - Developmental Psychology

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Foels

Document Summary

Piaget - most famous for his 4-stage model of cognitive development. Schema - concept or framework that organizes and aids in interpretation of information. Assimilation - interpreting new information with the context of existing schemas. Accomodation - adjusting or changing one"s schema"s to account for new information object permanence - awareness that things continue to exist even though they are not perceived; develops at 6-8 months of age. Egocentrism - the inability of preoperational children to take the perspective of another. Conservation - principle that certain properties of matter (e. g. mass, volume, number) remain the same despite changes in appearance; exhibited during the concrete operational phase. Vygotsky - most famous for social development theory (of child cognitive development) Scaffolding - change support to fit the needs of a child ( new learning needs lots of support) Imprinting - rigid, inflexible attachments demonstrated by some animal species (e. g. ducks, sheep)