PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Erik Erikson, Critical Period, Abstract Logic

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Mental molds into which we pour our experiences. We interpret new experiences in terms of our current understandings. Maturation: biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behaviour, relatively uninfluenced by experience. Cognition: mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering and communicating. Schema: concept or framework that organizes and interprets information. Assimilation: interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas. Accommodation: adapting our current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information. Sensorimotor stage: (piaget"s theory) stage from birth to about 2 years of age during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities. Object permanence: awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived. Hiding a toy and remembering that that toy still exists even though its temporarily nonexistent (sensorimotor stage) Looking / hearing / touching / mouthing / grasping = learning to make things happen. Egocentrism: (piaget"s theory) the preoperational child"s difficulty taking another"s point of view.