PSYC 273 Chapter 6: Cognitive Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood
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Believed child"s mind forms and modifies phycological structures so they achieve a better external reality. Infants and toddlers think with their eyes, ears, hands, other sensorimotor equipme. Cannot yet carry out many activities inside their heads. Schemes: specific psychological structures - organized ways of making sense of experienc. Adaptation: building schemes through direct interaction with the environment. Assimilation: using current schemes to interpret the external world. Accommodation: creating new schemes or adjusting old ones after noticing that ou ways of thinking do not completely capture the environment. When children are not changing much, they assimilate more than they accom. Rapid cognitive change = state of disequilibrium (cognitive discomfort) The times of greatest accommodation are early (this is why the sensorimotor. Organization: process that occurs internally, apart from direct contact with the environm. Once children form new schemes, they rearrange them, linking them with other sch create a strongly interconnected cognitive system.