Lecture 1- Physical And Psychological Development Of A Child Flashcards
What is cognition?
Act of process of knowing
Includes memory, judgment, and reasoning
What are the 4 major areas of cognitive development?
Area of perception
Recognition of information
Ability to categorize
Enhancement of memory
What are the 2 theories in the study of cognition?
Classical conditioning
Instrumental or operant conditioning
He is a Russian physiologist and states that there is an association between an environmental stimulus and a naturally occurring stimulus
Ivan Pavlov
He is a Swiss psychologist that was first to identify the way children think is different from adults
Jean Piaget
What are the 4 stages of cognitive development
Sensorimotor stage
Preoperational stage
Concrete operational stage
Formal operational stage
What stage of cognitive development where the infant learns that things continues to exist even things they cant see
Sensorimotor stage
What age does sensorimotor stage happen?
1-2 years old
What stage of cognitive development where the child is egocentric and struggles to see things from perspective of others, they usually pretend big yet still think very concretely about the world around them
Pre operational stage
At what age does preoperational stage happen?
2-7 years old
This is a stage of cognitive development where the child begins to think logically about concrete events,they are usually less egocentric and begins to think about hoe other people might think and feel
Concrete operational stage
At what age does concrete operational stage happen?
7-10 years old
This is stage of cognitive development where the young adults begin to think abstractly and reasons about hypothetical problems.
Formal operational stage
At what age does formal operational stage happens?
12 y/o up
What are the 5 stages of psychosexual development?
Oral stage
Anal stage
Phalic stage
Latency stage
Genital stage
At this age, the child tries to gratify his liberal energy through his mouth
Oral stage
Birth-1 year old
At this stage if psychosexual development, the child becomes aware if his anus and tries to gratify this zone with retention or expulsion of the feces
Anal stage
1-3 years old
At this stage of psychosexual development, the child frequently indulge in playing with their genitals in order to explore them
Phalic stage
At this stage of psychosexual development, the child suppress their sexual energy and direct it towards sexual pursuits
Latency stage
7-10 y/o
At this stage of psychosexual development, the child explore and experiment their sexuality and it defines their adult behavior
Genital stage
12 y/o and up
