PSY 101- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 37 pages long!)
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0 - 2 years -- sensorimotor stage. 2 - 7 years -- preoperational stage. 11 - adulthood -- formal operational stage. Schema - organization frameworks, mental patterns [ways of thinking] that children form at each stage of development [they change throughout stages] like a mental folder filing system. Assimilation - process through which a new experience is placed into an existing schema, schema stays the same. Accommodation - process through which a schema is adapted or expanded to incorporate a new experience, schema changes takes time. Many times there"s an initial attempt to assimilate but then they will change, modify and accommodate. Experience the world through sense and actions. Intelligence" consists of motor actions toward objects and sensory feedback gained from those actions. Little scientists trying to figure things out. Sucking reflex goes through processes of assimilation and accommodation. Notion that object continues to exist even when it"s hidden from view. One of key accomplishments for this stage.
