PSYC 2450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Egocentrism, Object Permanence, Animism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2450
• Professor: Carol Anne Hendry

Document Summary

Means of having harmony between your thought processes and the environment child as a constructivist children trying to explore and do things with their environment to learn more about it, then this creates a store of knowledge that helps them adapt to the environment schemes shifting set of defining criteria. Cognitive processes organization rearranging existing schemes into more complex ones adaptation occurs through assimilation and accommodation develops intelligence assimilation interpret new experiences with existing schemes accommodation. Stages of cognitive development sensorimotor (0 2 years) sensory inputs and motor capabilities become coordinated six substages reflex activity starfish reflex, grasping reflex primary circular reactions things happen inside their own bodies (ex. making sounds) secondary circular reactions things happen outside of their bodies (ex. things can make sounds) coordination of secondary schemes putting two or more schemes together tertiary circular reactions they actively experiment to invent new methods of problem solving.