PSYCH211 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Puzzle Video Game, Mental Representation, 18 Months

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH211
• Professor: Kathleen Bloom

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Piaget suggested that children develop as they act directly on the environment. He also states that children move through 4 stages between infancy and adolescence. Piaget"s sensorimotor stage spans the first two years of life. Piaget believed that infants and toddlers think with their eyes, ears, hands, and other sensorimotor equipment. They cannot yet carry out many activities inside their heads. But by the end of toddlerhood, children can solve everyday practical problems and represent their experiences in speech, gesture, and play. According to him, specific psychological structures organized ways of making sense of experience called schemes change with age. I(cid:374) piaget"s theo(cid:396)(cid:455), t(cid:449)o p(cid:396)o(cid:272)esses, adaptatio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d o(cid:396)ga(cid:374)izatio(cid:374), a(cid:272)(cid:272)ou(cid:374)t fo(cid:396) (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ges i(cid:374) s(cid:272)he(cid:373)es. Adaptation: involves building schemes though direct interaction with the environment. : consists of two activities; assimilation and accommodation. During assimilation, we use our current schemes to interpret the external world. Organization: a process that occurs internally, apart from direct contact with the environment.