PSYCH 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Frontal Lobe, Object Permanence, Information Processing
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Piaget"s cognitive theory: children build mental structures to help us adapt to the world. Schemes actions or mental representations that organize knowledge. Behavioral scheme (physical activities: sucking is natural ability. Mental scheme (cognitive activities: cognitive processes. Assimilation occurs when children use their existing schemes to deal w new information or experiences. Accommodation occurs when children adjust their schemes to take new: sensorimotor stage infant cognitive development lasting from birth to 2 years info and experiences. Infants learn to control and coordinate inborn reflexes. Accommodation first appears, w infants" prolonging pleasant sensations arising from reflex actions: a-not-b error. Tendency of infants to reach where an object was located earlier rather than where the object was last hidden. Older infants are less likely to make this error: object permanence. Understanding that objects continue to exists when out of sit. Brain: frontal lobe maturation: criticism of piaget. Time of development children reach developmental milestones earlier than suggested by piagetian stages.
