PSY 01316 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Habituation, Universal Language, Language Acquisition Device
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Chapter 5-lecture 5: cognitive development in infancy and toddlerhood: cognitive-developmental concepts. Schemas-concepts, ideas, and ways of interacting in the world. Assimilation- integrating a new experience into a preexisting schema. Accommodation- changing a schema by adapting and modifying it: cognitive-developmental concepts. Cognitive equilibrium- balance between the processes of assimilation and accommodation: individuals neither incorporating new information into their schemas nor changing their schemas in light of new information. Cognitive disequilibrium- mismatch between schemas and the world. Occurs more frequently than cognitive equilibrium: leads to cognitive growth, this mismatch leads to confusion and discomfort, motivates children to modify their cognitive schemas so that their view of the, sensorimotor reasoning world matches reality. Piaget"s first stage of (cid:272)og(cid:374)iti(cid:448)e de(cid:448)elop(cid:373)e(cid:374)t ((cid:271)irth -24 months) 6 substages in which cognition develops from reflexes to intentional action to symbolic. Object permanence- knowing an object still exists even when it is hidden.
