PSYCH 250 Lecture 5: Lecture 5
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Baby einstein market later had to offer full refunds. Sensorimotor stage (0-2 years) infants learn about the world through their five senses and their motor skills. Ex: the birthday party schema includes a knowledge set of birthday parties. Go home: adaptation the process of building schemas through direct interaction with the environment. Assimilation children incorporate new information into existing knowledge systems. Accommodation children change existing knowledge systems to incorporate new information. Circular reactions repeated actions used to learn about physical reality: substage 1. All the reflexes the baby is born with grasping, rooting, stepping, etc. Use these reflexes to explore surroundings and gain an understanding of the world: substage 2. Ex: put her finger in her mouth and then repeatedly does it. Key is that they repeat it and do it to their own body: substage 3. Making and repeating interesting events in the environment.
