Chapter 6 Flashcards
Sensation
Response of a sensory system
Perception
processing of a sensation
Cognition
comprehending meaning
Stage One and Two: Primary Circular Reactions
“Responses to one’s own body”
Stage 1 (Birth to 1 month)
Stage of Reflex
Reflex—- Perception—- Cognition
Stage 2 (1 to 4 months)
Stage of 1st acquired this is Adaptation
Stages three and four:
“Secondary circular reactions”
Stages three and four: “Secondary circular reactions”
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Stage 3 (4-8 months)
-Attempts to make interesting things last
Continue Experience
Stage 4 (8 months to 1 yr)
Means to end goals they want to meet
Initiate and anticipate
Object Permanence Experiment-
That babies don’t understand permanence, they think it’s gone forever. As they get older they
recognize
Sensorimotor Intelligence:
Tertiary circular reactions
Stage five- 12-18 months
-Stage of “New means through active explorations”
-Little scientists
-Scientific methods/ Trial of Error
Stage Six (18-24 months)
-Stage of Mental combinations
-Intellectual experimentation via immigration
-They can pretend
-Deferred imitation
-Languages develops
Piaget and Modern Research
what are the three things
and whats diff from piaget time vs now
Sample Size: Piaget did not do extensive research on a large population of infants
Methodology: More advanced testing methods are now available that Paiget did not have
Brain Activity: Brain scans show development at a faster rate than Piaget had established
Information Processing Theory
How do we think?
compare us v computer
Computer- Processes Information
Attending (paying attention)
Encoding (process info)
Storing (put it into memory)
Retrieval (recall it)
What do we think? Gibson, James
Affordance (input)
-A clue in the environment that indicates direct action, no stimulus involved)
Action is dependent on a few factors:
Past experience, Age, Culture, current development
-Memory (storage and retrieval)
Affordance: What will Baby focus on?
Dynamic perception
People’s preference-
Emotional affordance
Visual Cliff-
-Experimental apparatus that gives the illusion of a sudden drop-off between one horizontal
surface and another
-Infant performance depends on past experiences including social context
Memory Development:
Storage:
How we store memories effects retrieval
Memory Development:
Babies Have memory:
Reminder session, memory space
Memory Development:
Implicit Memory
unconscious or automatic memory, Deja Vu
Memory Development:
Explicit Memory:
Easy to retrieve on demand, test
