PSYC 110 Study Guide - Scientific Method, Eidetic Memory, Personalization
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Embryonic: develops familiar features such as arms, legs, fingers, toes and a distinctly beating heart, near the end (7-8 weeks) sexual differentiation begins. Better nutrition, better living conditions, and improved medical care are responsible for an early appearance of sexual maturity in adolescence. He believed that people were born with a natural tendency to organize the world in meaningful way/ mental models/ schemata. Assimilation is the process through which the child fit/ assimilate new experiences into existing schemata. Sensorimotor: (birth to 2 years) schemata about the world revolve primarily around sensory and motor abilities. Accomplishments: child develops object permanence; learns how to control body, learns how to vocalize, and learns first words. Limitations: schemata are limited primarily to simple sensory and motor function; problems in thinking about absent objects (early). Preoperational: (2 to 7 years) schemata grow in sophistication. Children can think about absent objects, and can use one object to stand for another.
