PS275 Study Guide - Jean Piaget, Cognitive Development, Mental Representation
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Cognitive development throughout childhood changes in thinking cognitive development theorists cognitive development occurs in a set of predictable, invariant, and distinct changes. Adaptation tendency of organisms change in response to their environment. Assimilation: process of incorporating new information into an existing scheme, don"t just take in new material, we filter and modify it so that it can fit with a pre- existing schemes. Accommodation: changing an existing scheme to fit a new object, helps with distinguishing things. Pass through at different rates: can be at different stages in different areas. Decalages: at different stages on different tasks, different stages in same task, shifting especially at stage transitions stage 1: sensory-motor stage (birth- 2 years) sensory-motor intelligence infants learn associations between their motor behaviours and the resulting reactions. Extensive cognitive changes happen during this stage. Reflexive schemes (birth-1 month: 1st schemes formed from inborn reflexes reflexes become self initiated activity.
