Exam 2 Flashcards
Schemes
how we define/understand the world
EX: cat
Assimilation
process by which people understand an experience in terms of their current stage of cognitive development and way of thinking
EX: cat we assimilate that the new thing is cat
-taking in what you know
Substage 1
-0-1mths
simple reflexes, innate reflexes determine an infants interactions with the world
Substage 2
-1-4months
first habits and primary circular reaction, beginning of coordination of what was separate actions into single integrated activities, activities that engage a baby’s interest are repeated simply for the sake of continuing to experience them (circular reaction)
Substage 3
-4-8mths
infants now seek to repeat enjoyable events in their environments that are produced through chance activities
Primary circular reactions and which stage is it in?
1-3 mths
focus on infants own body, no external objects
EX: sucking thumb
stage 2
Secondary Circular Reactions and which stage?
4-8mth
repeated actions pertaining to the external world, not their body
EX:babbling, toy shaking in same exact way
-substage 3
Tertiary Circular reactions
- varying with a different movement
12-18
Substage 5
12-18 mths
-Variations of the same movement
-Development of schemes regarding deliberate variation of actions that bring desirable consequences
-Carrying out miniature experiment to observe consequences
-tertiary circular reactions
Substage 4
Coordination of Secondary Circular Reactions (8-12 Months)
-beginning of goal-directed behavior: Schemes are combined and coordinated to generate a single act to solve a problem
-Means to attain particular ends and skill in anticipating future circumstances due to object permanence (8months) (object is still there even if they can not see it)
Substage 6
-beginning of thought (18mths-2years)
Capacity for mental representation or symbolic thought
-Mental representation
-Understanding causality
-Ability to pretend
-Deferred imitation
What are the basics of the information processing approach?
-Identifies the way individuals take in, store, and use information
-Involves quantitative changes in the ability to organize and manipulate information
-Increases sophistication, speed and capacity of information processing that characterizes cognitive growth
What did the Dr. Rovee-Collier kicking mobile study show about infant memory formation? (particularly with
how early is long-term memory shown in infancy if at all and how it improves with age and whether a
“reminder” enhanced performance of 2 and 6 month old babies
-seen by 2 months (infants remembered mobile a few days after event) but improves over age (6 months even better, as infants remembered mobile 3 weeks later)
Memories of personal past is not accurate before what age?
18-24 mths
-hippocampus is still developing
What is infantile amnesia and is it a real phenomenon?
inability of adults to retrieve the memories of when they were the age 2-4 years old
When do pre-babble (cooing) emerge and are they specific to language
no they are not specific to a native language
-2-3 months, have to be old enough to be able to control their vocals, sit upright with support
What is canonical babbling?
repeated consonant-vowel syllables
EX: ba ba ba
-universal in hearing infants
-6-8 mths
-resembles native language
What area of the brain is activated when babbling
and gestural babbling (and likewise vocalizations and gestures) occur
brocas area
How is babbling (vocal or deaf babbling)
helpful for language development?
-earlier onset, earlier language
phonemes
Sounds of our language (“a” in cat), 40 in the english lang, range from 15 to 85
semantics
rules that govern meaning of words and sentences
What is telegraphic speech?
more words but missing pronouns “want cookie”
when/what order does anger/sadness/surprise/fear and the social
smile emerge/appear?
6-9 weeks: social smile
3-4 months: ; anger, surprise, sadness
5-6 months: fear, shame, shyness
24 months: contempt, guilt
When do infants smile more at specific caregivers and less at inanimate
objects?
18 months: social smiling becomes more frequent toward humans than toward nonhuman objects, particularly towards their caregivers
What is stranger anxiety and when is it common?
-As memory develops, ability to recognize familiar people emerges, ability to anticipate and predict events increases, appearance of unknown person causes fear
-Common around 6 months
What is separation anxiety, when does it first emerge and when
does it peak; is it seen similarly timing-wise in other cultures?
-anxiety provoked in young children by separation or the threat of separation from their mother
-Begins around 7-8 months; peaks around 14 months, then declines
What is social referencing, when does it first occur, what situations is it most used in?
-Feeling what others feel; —First occurs around 8-9 months
-look to mom or dad to see how they should react