PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Rhesus Macaque, Harry Harlow, Mary Ainsworth
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Module 10. 2 infancy and childhood: cognitive and emotional development. Memory and language skills are slower to develop in infants who regularly watch television. Cognitive development: the study of changes in memory, thought, and reasoning processes that occur throughout the lifespan. Interested in explaining how different ways of thinking/reasoning develop. According to piaget knowledge accumulates and is modified by two processes- assimilation and accommodation. Assimilation: a conservative process, whereby people fit new information into the belief systems they already posses. E. g. young children may think all girls have long hair and as they encounter more examples of this pattern they will assimilate it into their current understanding. They might be confused when they see a girl with short hair but eventually they will learn their rigid categories need to be altered. This process is accommodation: a creative process whereby people modify their belief structures based on experience. The sensorimotor stage: living in the material world.
