PSYC 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Active Child, Lev Vygotsky, Empiricism
22 Oct 2015
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Re-cap: assimilation: using the same schema to interpret new experiences adaptation/ accommodation: adapt existing schema to create a new way of understanding an experience. Tree mountain task: perspective taking - whether you focus on yourself or whether you can take it from someone else"s perspective. Vertical: children can be at different stages for different skills. Horizontal: children can be at different stages for different instantiations of the same skill. Perception and learning different assumptions about state of newborn. Kant: believed in innate structure of the mind and pre-existence of meaningful categories. Piaget: took both nature and nurture into account - so knowledge is not innate but mechanism to discover through knowledge through adaptation. Most have adaptive function, even to primate history. They are hardwired, so window to central nervous system. Survival reflexes: breathing, eye-blink, pupillary, rooting, sucking, swallowing. Primitive reflexes: babinski, palmar, moro, swimming, stepping. https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=vdicep6osta. Rem sleep: 50% of newborn sleep; 25% - 30% of 6-month old sleep.
