PSYC 4230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Crossmodal, Habituation, Dishabituation

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 4230
• Professor: Kim Babb

Document Summary

Got into philosophy and epistemology (how we come to know things) By helping binet with creating the first iq test, he started to see some common errors, believing that it was possible that children saw and thought about the world different. Schemes/schemas: basic actions of knowing (physical or mental actions) from experience, what to expect in a given situation. Believed proposed that each baby begins life with a small amount of simple sensory or motor schemes, and later develops mental schemas such as categorizing or comparing objects. Organization: the process of deriving generalizable schemes from specific experiences. Figurative schemas: mental representations of the basic properties of objects in the world. Operative schemas: mental representations of the logical connections among objects in the world. Adaptation: the process in which we change our schemas; broken down into 3 sub-processes. Accommodation: changing a schema to fit new experiences. Equilibrium: involves a balancing of assimilation and accommodation;