PSY 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Primitive Reflexes, Ob River
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Inborn reflexes create center of a baby"s physical and cognitive life determine nature of his or her interactions with the world. Some of reflexes begin to accommodate infant"s experience. Substage 2: first habits and primary circular reactions. Infants begin to coordinate separate actions into single, integrated activities focused on their own body. If an activity engages a baby"s interests, infant may repeat it, simply for the sake of continuing to experience it. Infants begin to act upon outside world. Infant"s activity involves actions relating to the world outside. Infants begin to employ goal-directed behavior and repeat enjoyable activities. Several schemes are combined and coordinated to generate a single act. Infants develop schemes regarding deliberate variation of actions that bring desirable consequences. Infants carry out miniature experiments to observe the consequences. The major achievement of substage 6 is the capacity for mental representation, or symbolic thought. Creativity and imagination leap to new heights.
