PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10.2: Introjection, Harry Harlow, Mary Ainsworth

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Benjamin Giguere

Document Summary

Module 10. 2: infancy and childhood: cognitive and emotional. Research shows that memory and language skills are slower to develop in infants who regularly watch television. Piaget observed and tested his children"s abilities from infancy onwards. Cognitive development is the study of changes in memory, thought, and reasoning processes that occur throughout the lifespan. Piaget focused on cognitive development from infancy through early adolescence. Piaget was interested in explaining how different ways of thinking and reasoning develop. According to piaget, knowledge accumulates and is modified by assimilation and accommodation. Assimilation is a conservative process, whereby people fir new information into the belief systems that they already possess. Young kids might think all girls have long hair, and as they encounter more examples of this pattern, they will assimilate it into their current understandings. Their beliefs will be challenged when they run into girls with short hair.