PSYC 2000 : PSYC 2000 Exam 5 Study Guide
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Psyc 2000 section 04&5, fall 2015 exam 3. Below are a list of concepts and names you should be familiar with before taking the exam. Piaget"s stages & major concepts (i. e. conservation, object permanence etc. : said children think differently about the world than adults, assimilation: the incorporation of new experience into current schemas, accommodation: adjust or modify current schemas, stages, sensory motor: birth-2yrs. Concrete logical through, decentration, reversibility, classify and categorize: can understand analogies about concrete events, formal operational: 12-adult. Abstract thinking: criticisms, development is continuous rather than in stages, children develop these abilities earlier than predicted by this model, too much focus on objects and not enough focus on others in development. Nature v. nurture: studied using behavioral genetics studies, studied using twin studies, jim twins: separated at birth but had weird things in common, twins have strange similarities but its not uniform (not more than 50%) *genetics (dominance, epigenetics: dominant: always be expressed in observable trait.
