PSYCH 350 Chapter Notes -Epistemology, Tantrum, Object Permanence
27 Feb 2013
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Cognition are those thought processes and mental activities, including attention, memory, concept formation, and problem solving, that are evident from early infancy onward. Saw himself as a genetic epistemologist, a scholar who was interested in the origins of knowledge from a developmental perspective. Promoted the idea that human thinking is characterized by adaptation and organization. Children actively construct their knowledge of the world, incorporating new information into existence, schemas, by assimilation and accommodation. Children develop in stages; sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational and formal operational. Development is domain-general as in it is not tied to knowledge about any specific content. Birth to two years, thought is based primarily on action. Actions become increasingly goal directed and aimed at problem solving. Able to distinguish self from environment and learns about the properties of objects and how they are related to one another. Object permanence refers to the realization that objects exist even when they are within view.
