PSYC 2000 Lecture : PSYCHOLOGY Week 8
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Reflexes: a set of innate involuntary behavior patterns. Senses well developed at birth include taste, touch, smell. Vision is least functional sense at birth. Ability to understand words develops before the ability to produce words. Infant spontaneously utters various sounds, adding consonants to the vowels to form phonemes. Child starts to speak one-word and makes family adults understand him/her. Holophrases- whole phrases will be communicated through one word. Called telegraphic speech, in which the child speaks like a telegram (only nouns and verbs). Jean piaget: children are not like adults, but instead think much differently about the world. Schemas: we make sense of our experience by forming schemas (concepts or frameworks) in which we organize and interpret info. Assimilation: putting new info into the schema. Sensorimotor stage: infant uses senses and motor ability to interact with objects and the environment. Object permanence(6-8months): knowledge that object exists, even when it is not in sight.
