01:830:331 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Low Birth Weight, Romanian Orphans, Leg Before Wicket
14 Nov 2013
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Infant & child development exam # 1 review terms. Ages and stages in piaget"s theories: sensorimotor (0-2 years) know the world through senses and actions; object permanence, imitation. Birth-1month: infants begin to modify the reflexes with which they are born to make them more adaptive. 1-4 months: infants begin to organize separate reflexes into larger behaviors, most of which are centered on their own bodies. 4-8 months: more interested in the world around them. By end of substage 3, object permanence (knowledge that objects continue to exist even when out of view) typically emerges. Egocentrism, centration: concrete operational (7-12 years) - think logically, not just intuitively. Classify objects into coherent categories and understand greater complexity of causation. Solve conservation problems, but successful reasoning limited to concrete situations. Thinking systematically remains difficult: formal operational (12+ years) - think systematically and reason about what might be as well as what is. Politics, fiction, ethics, religion, science of greater interest.
