PSY210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cognitive Development, Object Permanence, Deductive Reasoning
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Cognitive development: cognition focuses on mental processes associated with processes related to acquiring knowledge, reasoning, thinking sensing and producing behaviour, cognitive development examines how these processes emerge and change over the lifespan, particularly childhood and adolescence. Key concepts in piagets theory: core premises. Children are motivated to make sense of their experiences. Children form and are constantly revising their theories of how the world works based on experiences. Views the child as playing an active role in their cognitive development: assimilation. Incorporating new experiences into existing theories: accommodation. Existing theories are modified based on new expeirnces: these processes are often in balance with most experiences being easily assimilated into existing theories or existing theories modified to accommodate new experiences, equilibration. When more time is spent accommodating than assimilating, children reorganize their theories to return to equilibrium. Results in the formation of more advanced schemas: schema. People have schemas related to all manner of experiences.
