PSYCH 100 Lecture Notes - Egocentrism, Object Permanence

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Psychology & Brain Sciences
• Course: PSYCH 100
• Professor: tamararahhal

Document Summary

Rooting touch a newborn"s check with your finger and they will turn and start sucking. Blinking flash lights or wave your hand in your newborns eyes and he will blink. Moro hold an infant and drop him slightly and he will reach with his hands and legs. Grasping put your finger in a newborn"s hand and they will grab it. Stepping hold your newborn upright, slightly off the floor and they will make walking movements. Preferences: faces/face-like images, human voices, mother"s sound and mother"s smell. What is a stage theory: humans move through predictable stages, they move from stage to stage at certain ages, order is unchanging. Basic assumption: children are active thinkers who try to construct more accurate/advanced understanding of the world. How do children construct knowledge: assimilation, schemas child has cat schema 4 legs, small, furry, animal. Sees a squirrel assimilation calls it cat . Sees lots of squirrels accommodation now schema for squirrels bushy tails: accommodation.