Cognitive Development Flashcards
Erikson’s stages
- not necessary for each stage to be resolved before progression
- based on crises and have ‘vs’ in them
- go from birth into lade adulthood
Basic trust vs basic mistrust
- birth-12-18 months
- Erikson’s stages
Autonomy vs shame
-18 months to 3 years
-autonomy refers to children gaining more control over activities and acquiring new skills
Erikson’s stages
Initiative vs guilt
- Erikson’s stages
- 3- 6 years
Industry vs inferiority
-6-12 years
Erikson’s stages
-we are capable of learning, creating etc and develop a sense of industry
-this is a very social stage of development and can lead to unresolved feelings of inadequacy and inferiority among peers
Identity vs role confusion
- adolescence
- Erikson’s stages
- occurs between ages of 12-18
- development is now dependent on what we do, not what is done to us
- teens have develop a sense of identity and independence but this can be confusing
Intimacy vs isolation
- young adulthood
- Erikson’s stages
- major task is to find a future partner
Generativity vs stagnation
- middle adulthood
- Erikson’s stages
- seeking satisfaction through productivity and family- generativity
Ego integrity vs despair
- late adulthood
- Erikson’s stages
- cherishes life’s accomplishments and pursues life long interests
Piaget’s model of cognitive development
- sensorimotor
- pre-operational
- concrete operational
- formal operational
Schema
- Piaget
- basic building block or unit of intelligent behaviour
- consist of past experiences to understand future experiences
Adaption
Piaget
- process of fitting schemas to environmental information
- adaption can occur as either assimilation or accomodation
Assimilation
Piaget
-new information is incorporated into existing schemas without restructuring the schemas
Accomodation
Piaget
-the schemas are restructures to accommodate the newly learnt information
Equilibration
Piaget
-achieved when all information properly fits into schemas via either processes of adaption (assimilation or accommodation)