PSYC 333 Chapter 5: Chap 5- Cognitive Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood
2 Nov 2016
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The sensorimotor stage: piaget"s first stage, spans the first two years of life, infant and toddlers think with their eyes, ears, hands, and other sensorimotor equipment: They cannot yet carry out many activities inside their heads. Piaget"s ideas about cognitive change: schemes, specific psychological structures we use to make sense of experience, change with age: Sensorimotor action patterns (e. g. , grab and drop). Deliberate and creative (e. g. , throw off a wall, drop downstairs): change due to adaptation and organization, adaptation, building schemes through direct interaction with the environment, consists of: Using current schemes to interpret the external world. Creating new or adjusting old schemes after noticing that our current ways of thinking do not capture the environment completely: cognitive equilibrium: Children are not changing much: they assimilate more than they accommodate, cognitive disequilibrium: Shift from assimilation toward accommodation, then back toward: organization: assimilation, a process that takes place internally, apart from direct contact with the environment, process:
