Chapter 5 Flashcards
Accommodation
When things do not fit into our existing schemas. We must change and adapt it in order to understand and respond to the new information.
Assimilation
Involves integrating a new experience into a pre-existing schema
Babbling
127
Brocas Area
140
Canonical Babbling
130
Categorization
122
Central Executive
121
Circular Reactions
115
Cooing
127
Mental representation
Thinking about an object using mental pictures. Can not think about or visualize things that are not present. To think about an object, they must act on it by viewing it, listening to it, touching it, smelling it, and tasting it.
Circular Reactions
Early cognitive growth in the sensorimotor period comes through engaging in circular reactions, which has the repetition of an action and its response.
Primary circular reactions
Consist of repeating actions involving parts of the body that produce pleasure able or interesting results.
Secondary circular reactions
Repetitions of actions that trigger responses in the external environment outside of the babies body. Now include objects which the body uses to interact with to create an interesting environment