Psych Exam 3: Development

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Cognitive Development Theory

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Mind develops through a series of universal stages from simple reflexes to adult abstract reasoning

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Schemas

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Schemas are units of understanding that can be hierarchically categorized as well as webbed into complex relationships with one another.

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Assimilation

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People translate incoming information into a form they can understand

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Accommodation

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People adapt/change current knowledge structures in response to new experience.

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Piagets Stage Theory

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Sensory-motor cognition - O to 2 years

Pre-operational Cognition - 2 to 7 years
Concrete operations - 7 to 11 years

Formal Operations - 11 years +

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Sensorimotor (birth - 2 years)

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-Learning to use sensory and motor systems

• - Recognizes self as agent of action

• - Achieves Object Permanence

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Object Permanence

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knowing an object or person still exists even when they are hidden and you can't see or hear them.

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Pre Operational Cognition

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• - Child learns to use language

• - Egocentrism

• - Do not understand conservation

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What happens in the Conservation Expirement

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The experiment involves pouring juice into glasses that are different shapes and asking children which glass has more juice.

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Concrete Operational

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• - Gain mental operation that enable logical thinking about concrete events

• - Understand Conservation