Chpapter 11 Flashcards
(36 cards)
Individualistic vs Collectivistic
Collectivism stresses the importance of the community, while individualism is focused on the rights and concerns of each person.
Separated
Associate only with the minority but not the majority
Marginalized
A person who doesnt identify with any culture
Integrated
you identify as both minority and majority
Assimilation
when we absorb new information from our environment into existing schemas
Jean piaget
Believed infants begin at a cognitively “primitive” level and progress in distant stages
Schemas
is a way to make sense of the world around us
Schemas
is a way to make sense of the world around us
Accommodation
when we adjust old schemas, or develop new ones to better fir new information
Sensorimotor Period
Uses senses and motor skills to explore and develop cognitively
Object Permanence
when a child realizes that something still exist even when its out of site
Children lack this
Preoperational Period
Has significant language and thinks symbolically
Egocentric thinking
inability to consider another’s POV
Animistic thinking
believing all things are living
Concrete Operational Period
characterized by logical operations, such as conservation, reversibility or classification, allowing logical reasoning.
Conservation
understanding that an object is the same even if its outward appearance changes
– think of the water examples with kids
Formal operations
when you start thinking hypothetically, abstractly
Adolescent Egocentrism
you feel like you are the center of the universe, you think no one else understand you
-Common in young adults
David Elkind
Says you can find adolescent egocentrism with two examples
- Personal fable
- Imaginary audience
Personal Fable
An adolescent believes they are invulnerable, they think nothing bad will happen to them
Imaginary audience
You believe that all eyes are on you
- you become very self conscious
Harry Harlow
wanted to show emotional needs are important in development, babies need contact comfort
- conducted the study with monkey
Contact Comfort
the work of harry harlow showed what was important
John Bowlby
Says that the kind of attachment that you develop with you care giver early in life, set the foundations in how you approach all future relationships