PSY 322 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Operant Conditioning, Charlotte Selver, Object Permanence
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Cognition in the first 2 years as suggested by piaget. Six stages describing the relationship between sensation, perception, and cognition (pg. Stage 1 (birth-1 month): stage of reflexes/ start to control the reflexes. Stage 2 (1-4 months): stage of first habits; first acquired adaptations/ accommodation and assimilation. Can discriminate between things and change how they react. Stage 3 (4-8 months): make interesting experiences last/ social smiling. Stage 4 (8 months-1 year): new adaptations and anticipation; means to the end. 175): realization that objects exist when they are no longer in sight https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=4jw668f7hda. Stage 5 (12-18 months): new means through active experimentation/ trial and error-they just go for it. Stage 6 (18-24 months): using mental combinations and imagination to understand. Deferred imitation: infants copy behavior they noticed hours/days ago. Past experience: research, visual cliff study, memory. Conditions of memory: motivation and emotion, reminders and repetition. By age 2, human language abilities surpass those of any other species.
