PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Object Permanence, Dishabituation, Critical Thinking

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Stephanie Denison

Document Summary

Habituation: baby looks at a pattern intently at first, then look at it less as time passes. Dishabituation: if a new pattern is substituted for the old one, infants immediately increase their looking time. Gaze following: infants regularly watch the eyes of a nearby person. Object permanence: the principle that objects continue to exist when out of view. Infants prefer novel stimuli as demonstrated by the fact that they look at them longer. Assimilation: the process by which new experiences are incorporated into existing schemes, adding knowledge to what you already know. Accommodation: existing schemes that expand or change somewhat to accommodate the new object or event. Operations: reversible actions, whose effects can be undone by other actions. Sensorimotor: birth 2 years: cognition progresses from the exercise of reflexes. Intelligence is limited to the infant"s own actions. Preoperational: 2 7 years: thought is intuitive and egocentric rather than logical. Intelligence is symbolic and expresses via language and imagery.