PSYC 250 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Cognitive Development, Vocab (Song), Egocentrism

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 250
• Professor: Michelle Kline

Document Summary

There is an innate biologically based program that is the driving force of maturation. A way of thinking within a stage of development that is applied to all aspects of life. Changing the scheme to adapt to the new information. Changing the scheme of dogs to be more specific when they see a horse for the first time. Cognitive process of altering the new information to fit an existing scheme. Seeing other dogs that are all different but still assimilating them into the schema of dog. cognitive structures for processing, organizing and interpreting information: 0-2, learning to coordinated sensory and motor activities. Awareness that objects continue to exist even when we are not in direct sensory or motor contact with them. Thinking being centered or focused on one noticeable aspect of a cognitive problem and ignoring other important aspects. Children in the preoperational stage lack this ability. Cannot distinguish one"s own perspective from the perspective of others.