HLTH 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: 18 Months, Object Permanence, Formal And Material Principles Of Theology
11 Oct 2013
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Lecture 5 psychosocial perspectives on lifespan development and. Textbook: lifespan development: a topical approach 2nd edition. Piaget"s goal was to understand how children think, rather than characterizing whether their thinking was right or wrong at a given age. He assumed 4 stages: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational and formal operational. And movement from one stage to another when the child reaches appropriate level of physical maturation. Schemes, organized patterns of functioning, that adapt and change with mental development. Assimilation is the process by which people understand an experience in terms of their current stage of cognitive development and way of thinking. Accommodation refers to changes in existing ways of thinking, understanding, or behaving in response to encounters with new stimuli or events. Earliest schemes are primarily limited to the reflexes and infants start to modify these schemes through the process of assimilation and accommodation. Sensorimotor stage, the initial major stage of cognitive development.
