PSYCH 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Language Processing In The Brain, Almost Surely, Biological System
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Sensorimotor stage (0-2 years) - infants learn about the world through their 5 senses and their motor skills. Ex: birthday party schema, the generally accepted idea of how a birthday. How does cognitive change take place? party works. Adaptation: process of building schemas through direct interaction with the environment. Assimilation: children incorporate new info into existing knowledge systems. Accommodation: children change existing knowledge systems to accommodate new information (harder) Circular reactions: repeated actions used to learn about physical reality. Substage 1: reflexive schemas (birth to one month); the building blocks of sensorimotor intelligence. Substage 2: primary circular reactions (one to four months); actions are done by accident then repeated; oriented towards infant"s own body. Ex: putting fingers in mouth over and over again. Substage 3: secondary circular reactions (four to eight months); making and repeating interesting events in the environment. Ex: kicking a toy with her foot over and over again.
