PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Egocentrism, 18 Months, Object Permanence
12 Jun 2013
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The basic action of knowing, including physical and mental actions. Schemes build on a small repository of simple sensory or motor schemes, such as taste and sucking. Infant begins with reflexes that are made more complex through experiences. As people act on their environments, an inborn mental process causes them to derive generalizable schemes from specific experiences. Enable people to work in new environments. Child must develop more complex methods to develop these schemes through two basic process. When the child encounters something new, using the same basic processes in order to expand their scheme. Take in the new event and trying to fit it into our new pre-existing scheme. Guides how we attend in the world. We may miss out on things that do not fit into our prior scheme. The process of taking in, of absorbing some event or experience and making it part of a scheme.
