Psychology 2410A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Prefrontal Cortex, Numerical Cognition, Approximate Number System

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2410A/B
• Professor: Lynne Zarbatany

Document Summary

Used his children &neighbours" children to test his ideas. Child"s knowledge, representations &ways of interacting w/the world. How do schemes develop: processes of adaptation. Assimilation: incorporate new info into old scheme. Accommodation: change scheme to accommodate new information: eg. Job market is terrible but friend is an exception (assimilation) Jobs available (accommodation: goal is to achieve match between scheme &experience; mismatch causes state of disequilibrium, assimilation. Ability to form mental representations of objects and events: major achievement: 6 qualitatively different substages (cid:498)thinking(cid:499) visible: reflexes (0-1 month) Modify through experience: primary circular reactions (1-4 months) Repeat if pleasurable (eg. hand waving, finger sucking, kicking) Focus primarily on body (cid:523)don"t think about outside of body(cid:524: secondary circular reactions (4-9 months) Apply new motor schemes to external objects. Limitation: object does not exist separate from action. When object disappears from sight, it ceases to exist. Object permanence failure: coordination of secondary circular reactions (9-12 months) Intersensory integration of multiple schemes of same object.