Exam 2 Flashcards
What was Piaget’s view of children?
He found that children ACTIVELY construct knowledge
Does Piaget support a continuous or discontinuous view of development?
Discontinuous, qualitative changes
What are schemes?
clusters of knowledge
Adaptation
building schemes
Assimilation
use current schemes to interpret new things you’re encountering
Accommodation
Modify old schemes or create new ones for new thing you encounter
Equilibrium vs. Disequilibrium
balance (cognitive comfort) vs. imbalance (cognitive discomfort)
accommodation most likely to happen during imbalance (discomfort)
Object Permanence
understanding that an object still exists when it’s out of sight
According to Piaget, when do children understand object permanence? Was he correct?
8 months, doesn’t give babies enough credit bc it’s shown to happen before 8 months
Explain the steps of the violation of expectation method
after habituation (repeatedly showing baby the same thing over and over), either show a normal event or impossible event, see if baby recovers from habituation
Core knowledge perspective
a perspective that states that infants begin life with innate, special purpose knowledge systems, or core domains of thought, each of which permits a ready grip of a new, related information and therefore supports early, rapid development of certain aspects of cognition
Examples of core knowledge perspective
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Evaluation of Piagets theory (what is good, what is inaccurate)
some development happens within general time frame Piaget describes, my appear sooner than described and be more continuous
What are the three parts of information processing?
Attention, memory, categorization
What are scale errors?
spatial and size, kids can’t process it
ex) trying to sit in a toy car or on super small chair
How does attention change over time?
- infants attend to novel things
- toddlers attraction to novelty decrease
- efficiency and ability to shift focus improve
- better sustained attention after year 1
- newborns take long time to habituation
- habituation and recovery speed up after year 1
How does memory change over time?
- retention intervals lengthen
- context dependent memory
- recall is excellent in second year
How does categorization change over time?
- impressive perceptual categorization in first year
- conceptual categorization in second year
What main language development milestone does a newborn meet?
crying
What main language development milestone does a baby by 2 months meet?
cooing begins
What main language development milestone does a baby by 6 months meet?
babbling begins
What main language development milestone does a baby by 8-12 months meet?
use of gestures, comprehension of words increase, more accurate joint attention, turn-taking