PSY210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Peekaboo, Object Permanence, Deductive Reasoning
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From birth to 1 year: sounds, infants are born, telling apart more phonemes than adults, by 1 year, infants tune into mother tongue, words, comprehension precedes production (understand more than they say/produce, rst words spoken at approx. Speech perception: after age 7, we see a decline in language, babies are more interested in english that mother tongue. Cognitive development: cognitive focuses on mental processes associated with processes related to acquiring knowledge, cognitive development focuses on how knowledge is. Core premises: there are 3 times in a childs life where they have to drastically reorganize their theories, this leads to 4 stages that piaget believed all children go through in the same order. Stages of cognitive development: sensorimotor (0-2years, preoperational (2-6years, concrete operations (7-11years, formal operations (11 years and onwards) Concrete operational stage: 7- 11 years: children better able to see others" perspectives, arithmetics: child understands that 5+3= 8, but you can get back to 5 by reversing the operation.
