PSYC 315 Study Guide - Final Guide: Motor Cognition, Active Child, Object Permanence
Document Summary
Assimilation: incorporate incoming information into concepts they already know. Accommodation: improve their current understanding in response to new experiences. Children construct knowledge on the basis of experience. Sensorimotor: birth to age 2: active child, thinking, intelligence with motor behavior, lack object permanence. Preoperational: 2 7 years: personal symbols, egocentric: own perspective, centration: focus on a single feature. Concrete operational stage: 7 12 years: fail to observe both sides of something. Formal operation stage: 12 18 years: think abstractedly and reason, not universal though, more insight. Children know a lot about the world. Basic trust vs. mistrust: 1 year: sense of trust and being close with people. Autonomy vs shame and doubt: 1 3 years: adjusting to social demands, motor cognition and language, explore on their own. Guilt: 4 6 years: learning from their parents, development of consciousness, rules, standards, experience guilt. Industry vs. inferiority: 6 puberty: ego development, cognitive and social skills, culture, failure and success.
