PSYA02H3 Lecture 5: PSYA02 Lecture 5 – Development - Monday January 18th
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Psya02 lecture 5 development: cognitive development . Schemas: organized units of knowledge about objects, events, and actions, cognitive adaptation. It is through accommodation that the number and complexity of a child"s schemas increase and learning occurs. When a child is developing senses and motor skills. The importance of operations, schemata"s, and the processes of. Complete" or achieve these stages onto the next one until they do assimilation versus accommodation. When children cover their own eyes they may think that they are invisible to others since they are egocentric (only possessing the ability to see things from their own perspectives and not others) The preoperational period here the child begins learning how to think logically and how to use symbols especially language. Child stills has an egocentric bias classic example is learning the notion of conservation: once children have some sense of object permanence. You can test them with the a not b task.
