PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Pubic Hair, Spermarche, Menarche

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Dan Dolderman

Document Summary

Infancy and childhood: cognitive & emotiona development no t. v. before age 2: slows language skill development | reading increases vocab. and comp. Pigaet"s cognitive development theory cognitive development: study of changes in memory, thought & reasoning through life assimilation: conservative process, fit new info. into own old belief system accommodation: modify belief based on exp. 4) formal operational | 11 + | abstract hypothetical thinking | scientific reasoning possible. Sensorimotor (stage 1) cannot form abstract mental representations -- live in the moment: no object permanence out of sight, out of mind object permanence: ability to understand that objects you cannot see exist. M&ms worked! scale errors: thinking miniature versions function the same way and interacting w/ them. Concrete operation (stage 3) able to understand conservation capable of logical thinking and manipulating numbers categorize with physical characteristics capable of transitivity: if x>y and y>z then x>z.