H_D 101 Lecture Notes - Lev Vygotsky, Working Memory, Recognition Memory
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Schemas: actions or mental representations that organize knowledge. Assimilation and accommodation are the way schemas are adapted. Assimilation: new object or idea is incorporated into existing schema. Accommodation: adjusting old or creating new schema to fit new information and experiences. Child sees a zebra for first time and calls it a horse. No honey, this is a zebra: they have black and white stripes. Sensorimotor stage (cid:149) birth to about 2 years (cid:149) learn about world through senses and motor skills (cid:149) six substages. Evaluating sensorimotor reasoning (cid:149) violation-of-expectation tasks (cid:149) task in which a stimulus appears to violate physical laws. Object permanence: objects, events, and people continue to exist even when they are out of sight. Evaluating sensorimotor reasoning (cid:149) deferred-imitation tasks (cid:149) deferred imitation: ability to repeat an act performed some time ago (cid:149) requires acting on basis of stored representations of actions (memories)
