9.2.1 & 9.2.2 Flashcards
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Cognition
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All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating
2
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Schema
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A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information
3
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Assimilate
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Interpreting out new experience in terms of our existing schemas
4
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Accommodate
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Adapting our current understandings (schemas) go incorporate new information
5
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Sensorimotor stage
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In piaget’s theory, the stage (from birth to about 2 years of age) during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities
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Object permanence
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The awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived
7
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Maturation
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Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively I influenced by experience
