PSYC 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Developmental Psychology, Object Permanence, Metacognition
11 Dec 2016
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Cognitive development in general: refers to the idea that changes occur within children"s mental states and. Looking for universal patterns of growth and knowledge abilities over the course of their lives. Intelligence is a basic life function which helps an organism adapt to their environment: goal was to achieve a point of cognitive equilibrium. Children are motivated to makes sense of the environment when something happens that hey don"t understand. Goal of cognitive equilibrium forces them to be an active participant within their environment. Construct knowledge about the world with cognitive schemas. Patterns of though or action that help organize the world. Therefore, a child goes threw four distinct stages in cognitive development: sensorimotor schema (0-2 yrs, what the child can represent through overt actions. Ex: they see a ball as something that rolls not something that"s round: coordinating sensory input with motor capabilities.
