PSY 2105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Cognitive Development, Mental Representation, Object Permanence

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2105
• Professor: Gustavo Gottret

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(cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Higher order mental processes by which humans understand and adapt to the world: thinking, reasoning, learning, problem solving. Developmental psych seeks to understand how the form and function of cognition changes across the life span. View of intellectual development of child reflected an interaction btwn biology and experience. Seek the organization by which child understands the world. Identify the functional significance of knowledge (knowledge allows a child to adapt to the world) Cognitive adaptation reflects the actions of 2 complementary processes. Assimilation: allows existing cognitive structures to adapt to environment: making sense of new info using existing schemes. Accommodation: allows cognitive structure to change in order to handle a new environmental situation: changing existing schemes to fit w new. 8. 1 organization role in development of cognitive structures. Essence of intelligence lies in underlying organization cognitive structures are ways of organizing info to understand it more effectively.