Chapter 5 Cognitive Development Flashcards
Schemas
categories of experience
Assimilation
incorporate new experience into an existing one
Accommodation
change schemas based on experience
Sensorimotor Stage (6)
- Simple Reflexe
- Primary circular reactions
- Secondary circular reaction
- Coordination of secondary scheme
- Tertiary circular reaction
- Invention of new means through mental representation
Simple reflexes
- When
- What
- birth-1m.
- Suck
Primary circular reactions
- when
- what
- 1-4
- coordinate 2 movements aka suck thumb
Secondary circular reaction
- when
- what
- 4-8
- repeat nice action aka suck soother
Coordination of secondary scheme
- when
- what
- 8-12
- purpose aka pass ball
Tertiary circular reaction
-when -what
- 12-18
- old action and another aka shake/throw/draw/cut—has a purpose
Invention of new means through mental representation
- when
- what
- 18-24
- think before aka make believe play
First steps to speaking (6)
Newborn-cry 2 months-cooing(gurlge/oo) 6 months- babbling(ma/pa/ba) 12 months- words 18 months-2 words 24 months- +word sentaces
Referential
language to label objects
Expressive
interaction style
Holophase
1 word =different meaning
mom can be to represent happiness and sadness
Underextension
word narrow(only dog in family is a dog)