PSYC 2000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Mcdonaldland, Hydrocephalus, Phenytoin
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Reflexes: moro (startle); walking/stepping; rooting; sucking (involuntary at first then controlled); tonic (straight arm where looking, other curled); palmar (grasp); plantar (foot curl); galant (orients to back stroke); swimming; babkin (response to pressure on both palms) Sensorimotor experiencing the world through senses and actions (looking, hearing, touching, mouthing, and grasping: object permanence realizing that things continue to exist even if you can"t see them. Egocentrism it is difficult for them to see things from someone else"s perspective: conservation the principle that quantity remains the same despite changes to the shape, mathematical transformation, abstract logic imagination and symbols. When giving intelligence tests to representative samples of people, researchers consistently find that older adults give fewer correct answers than do younger adults: longitudinal study research in which the same people are restudied and retested over a long period until late in life, intelligence remained stable.
