PS275 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Thumb Sucking, Piaget'S Theory Of Cognitive Development, Future Problem Solving Program International
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Cognitive development throughout childhood * on midterm schemes/ schemata. Mental rep of something , organized info that we put together somehow. Ex say car, we have a scheme of a car. Schemes change and develop based on our experience. Can have schemes for ways of doing things, such as studying. Tendency of organisms to change cause of environment. Learn how to influence it in some kind of way. Process of incorporating new information into existing scheme. In which you incorporate new information into the scheme. Don"t take in new material, also filter or modify that information so it can fit preexisting scheme. Give infant new object they have never seen before, they put it in their mouth. Everything is like food to them goes with their food scheme, sucking scheme. Mummys coat ( everything that looks like it or is similar to it)