FRHD 2270 Midterm: Midterm Review Week 4.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 2270
• Professor: Robyn Pitman

Document Summary

Week 4- theories of cognitive development, cognitive processes and academic skills. Naturally curious: make sense of their world. Construct own understanding: create their own theories. Equilibrium assimilate experiences into existing theories: comfortable state. Disequilibrium more accommodation occurs: causes cognitive discomfort, replace old theories with new ones, return to equilibrium. Schemes organized ways of making sense of experience: mental structures, created through equilibrium, active and always changing. Assumptions: move through all 4 stages in exact sequence, cannot skip a stage, ages are approximate, could move through stages slower or faster. Think with eyes, ears, and hands and other sensory equipment: birth to 2 years, move from simple reflexes to symbolic processing, 6 sub-stages. Secondary circular reactions months) (4-8: repeated actions that involve an object, voluntary. : primary circular reactions months) (1-4: accidentally produces a pleasing event and tries to recreate it. : intentional behavior (8-12 months: means are distinct from an end.