PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Jean Piaget, Learning, Baby Talk
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Stability vs change: across developmental stages. Habituation reduced responding to something that is experienced repeatedly. They have no top-down processing, no previous understanding//being bombarded with information and expected to learn. Physical: motor reflexes: grasping, rooting- turning cheek. Different types of cries (annoyed, hungry, in pain) Social: imitation// have ability to mimic faces. Early development involves creating networks and pruning unnecessary cells. Enormous plasticity at birth (much more malleable at young age than at old age) Next, they sit unsupported, crawl, and finally walk. Experience has little effect on this sequence. *understand stages (sitting before crawling, etc), not actual details (i. e. crawling at 8-9 months) Previously didn"t realize how powerful associative learning is in babies. Associative learning (2-3 month olds: example: amount of kicking when hooked up to a string (connected to a mobile) compared to kicking without anything. Earliest autobiographical memories come from about 3 years-5 years of age. We don"t have a good language system.
