PSYC 2290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Dishabituation, Deductive Reasoning, 18 Months

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2290
• Professor: Jocelyn B.Proulx

Document Summary

System of knowledge about particular object, concepts. The action of knowing including physical actions, mental actions, and a complex systems of ideas related to concepts and actions. Schemes increase and become more complex with age. Figurative schemas: mental representations of the basic properties of objects in the world, a bird has wings, it flies, etc. Operative schemes: mental representations of the logical connections among objects in the world and the reason about them, a bird is an animal but not a mammal. Adaptation occurs when schemes are changed to better fit for information from the environment. Assimilation: process of taking in an event or experience and making it a part of a scheme: a ball will bounce, and they test it out and this proves their scheme. Equilibrium: process of bringing assimilation and accommodation into balance and developing a new way to conceptualize the world.