Psychology 2040A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Intentionality, Habituation, Phoneme
31 Oct 2014
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Piaget"s stages of cognitive development: stage model: universal and invariant sequence, active construction of understanding of the world, sensorimotor stage (birth to 2 years, preoperational stage (2 to 7 years, concrete operational stage (7 to 11 years, formal operational stage (11 years and beyond, circular reaction(cid:224) involves stumbling onto a new experience caused by the, circular because as the infant tries to repeat the event again and again, a babies own motor activity sensorimotor response that first occurred by chance becomes strengthened into a new scheme. Sensorimotor period repeating chance behaviors largely motivated by basic needs: primary circular actions (cid:224) start to gain voluntary control over their actions by, leads to simple motor habits like sucking their thumbs, also vary their behavior in response to environmental demands (open their mouth differently for a nipple than for a spoon, circular = repeated, primary = centred on infant"s own body, passive expectation of object concept does not actively.
