PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Parenting Styles, Abstract Logic, Egocentrism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Benjamin Giguere

Document Summary

Biologically driven growth and development enabling a sequence of predictable cognitive and behavioural changes. The brain matures (sequence of maturation is similar to toddlers learning motor skills: what is cognitive development. Cognition refers to the mental activities that help us function, including: Understanding and using language (most humans use self talk) We don"t start out being able to think like adults. Kids make cute mistakes (e. g. , calling all the things in the water a fishy ) How do we start to organize our experiences of the world. Schema: a mental container that holds our experiences and organizes them according to similarities and differences. Assimilation: new experiences are absorbed into an existing schema. Accommodation: new experiences lead to modification of a schema. Accommodation brings children to enter a new way of looking at the world. In this case by distinguishing horses and zebras. How does development occur? (piaget"s stages: development is a combination of nature and nurture.