Chpapter 11 Flashcards
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.