PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Introjection, Rhesus Macaque, Harry Harlow

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

Document Summary

Cognitive development: the study of changes in memory, thought, and reasoning processes that occur throughout the lifespan. Jean piaget focused on cognitive development from infancy through early adolescence. Whereby people fit new information into the belief systems already possessed. Boys with long hair are confused for girls by young children. Accommodation: a creative process whereby people modify their belief structures based on experience. Assimilation and accommodation occur throughout life, help make sense of the world, and are challenged by info outside our beliefs. Piaget"s observations revealed that cognitive development occurs in four distinct stages: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational, passing from one stage to the next occurs when an important developmental milestone is achieved. Sensorimotor stage: from birth to 2 years, during which an infants" thinking about and exploration of the world are based on immediate sensory (seeing, feeling) and motor (grabbing, mouthing) experiences. Infants are completely immersed in the present.