PSYC 2290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Dishabituation, Habituation, Intentionality

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2290
• Professor: proulx

Document Summary

The action of knowing including physical actions, mental actions, and a complex system of ideas related to concepts and actions. Schemes increase and become more complex with age. Figurative schemes: mental representations of the basic properties of objects in the world. Operative schemes: mental representations of the logical connections among objects in the world and to reason about them (how are they related) Adaptation occurs when schemes are changed to better fit information from the environment. Assimilation: process of taking in an event or experience and making it part of a scheme. Accommodation: changing a scheme due to new information. Equilibrium: process of bringing assimilation and accommodation into balance and developing a new way to conceptualize the world. Progress through the stages depends on brain maturation, social transmission and experience. Social transmission: information from others which provide new models. Experience: acting upon the world and observing the results. Each of these is necessary for cognitive development.