EDUC1055 Study Guide - Final Guide: Habituation, Gender Identity, Cognitive Development
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Age is something that is crucial in determining psychological status. Imprinting ie. geese experiment, in the first few hours of life they would attach to/follow around the first moving thing they came into contact with, irrelevant of what that thing was. Most (cid:272)(cid:396)iti(cid:272)is(cid:373)s of piaget(cid:859)s theo(cid:396)y a(cid:396)e that he u(cid:374)de(cid:396)esti(cid:373)ated (cid:272)hild(cid:396)e(cid:374)(cid:859)s a(cid:271)ilities. Criticisms: babies have some early developing abilities not predicted by piaget. Habituation is a baby getting used to something and becoming less interested in something else. Babies look at an event, the longer they look the more interested they are the less they look the less interested they are. They also seem to have the ability to add and subtract: cog(cid:374)iti(cid:448)e de(cid:448)elop(cid:373)e(cid:374)t is(cid:374)(cid:859)t a(cid:374) (cid:862)all o(cid:396) (cid:374)othi(cid:374)g(cid:863) phe(cid:374)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)o(cid:374) eithe(cid:396). Development is gradual/continuous eg. counting as a rote skill toddlers. Cognitive development evolves via: biology certain cognitive capacities seem to be tied to neural structures. Some cognitive capacities appear far too early to be learned: culture education.
