SDS150R Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Turkish Language, 18 Months, Operant Conditioning
7 May 2013
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Sensorimotor stage- piaget"s first stage of development, in which infants use information from their senses and motor actions to learn about the world. Substage 1- reflexes: use of built-in schemas such as sucking or looking. Limitied imitation, no ability to integrate information from several senses. Primary circular reactions- piaget"s phrase to describe a baby"s simple repetitive actions in substage 2 of the sensorimotor stage; the actions are organized around the baby"s own body (sucking thumb is pleasurable, so they continue to do it) Means-end behavior- purposeful behavior carried out in pursuit of a specific goal (moving a toy out of the way to get another) Tertiary circular reactions- deliberate experimentation with variations of previous actions that occurs in substage 5 of the sensorimotor period (trial and error kind of behavior) (dropping a toy from a height to see if it makes different sounds, etc)
