PSYC 304 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Puzzle Video Game, Object Permanence, Lev Vygotsky
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Assimilation: using current schemas to interpret the external world. Accommodation: adjusting old schemes, or creating new ones to better fit the environment we change when we pain . Piaget"s sensorimotor stage: age range and major accomplishments: Sensorimotor stage: (birth 2 years): problem solving, anticipating events. Major accomplishment: building schemes through sensory and motor exploration. Circular reaction: chance activity that becomes purposeful behavior. (accidentally banging hand on high chair making noise -> gets adult attention -> more banging in chair) Object permanence: ability to find hidden object. This demonstrates understanding that objects still exit when they are out of sight. Evolutionary perspective: infants have innated, special-purpose knowledge systems called core domains of thought; physical, numerical, linguistic, psychological, biological. ; core domains prepare us to rapidly develop key aspects of cognition; development is domain specific, each domain develops independently depending on experience; children as na ve theorists, constant questioning, testing, trial and error, learn from experience.
