PSYC 102 Lecture 4: Jan 15th 2019 - Developmental Psychology
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How people are continually changing from infancy to old age. Babies get bored seeing more of the same. Infants gaze longer at drawing of a facelike image than at a bull"s-eye pattern. Babies can tell apart dogs and cats at about 3. 5 years of age. Development occurs in stages, with a qualitative shift in the organization and complexity of cognition at each stage. Based on a series of careful case studies. Mental molds into which we pour our experiences. Fitting new experiences into our current understanding (schema) Adjusting and expanding a schema in response to something new. Experiencing the world through senses and actions. Children younger than 6 months of age do not grasp object permanence; i. e. , objects that are out of sight are also out of mind. As young as 4. 5 months using looking task. He thought there was no abstract concepts < 2. Wynn (1992) showed evidence of baby math at 5 months old.
