Week 16 Flashcards
Development
Physical and behavioural changes that occur from conception to death
Infancy Stage
birth - 1 years, marked by mastery of basic and fine motor skills
Toddler Stage
1 - 3 years, become more mobile
Preschooler Stage
3 - 6 years, increasing social skills
School Age
6 - 12 years, children mature in many areas
Adolescence
12 - teen years, establish their own identities, mature physically and cognitively, and most influenced by peers
Schemata
Mental framework or body of knowledge that organizes and synthesizes what we know about a person, place, or thing
How is the building and rebuilding of Schemata accomplished?
Assimilation,Accommodation, and Equilibrium
Assimilation
Integrating new information into the schema without needing to revise that schema
Accommodation
Integrating information into the schema even though it may not necessarily be explainable, and is regarded as an ‘exception’
Equilibrium
Process that occurs when we accommodate information to the point where the original schema no longer holds true and a new one needs to be created
What happens to the new Schema
It is more advanced, stable, and less vulnerable to contradiction
Object Permeance
The idea that objects do not disappear when they are out of sight
A-not-B error
a Piaget task that indicates preservative error
Concept of conservation
The idea that the quantity of something remains the same even though it is transferred into a container that has a different size or shape
Intersubjectivity
the understanding between two communicators that allows them to communicate effectively about a subject
Why is intersubjectivity important?
it involves the concepts of join attention and social referencing
Joint attention
the way in which people can together focus on an external object in the nearby surroundings
Social referencing
Way in which people take cues from others when dealing with unfamiliar circumstances
Inner speech
The internalization of words and the mental manipulation of them as symbols for objects in the environment
Actual development level
The skills and problem-solving abilities that a child can show on their own
Social scaffolding
The way people with more knowledge helps a child reach a higher level of thought than he or she may have been able to do so alone
Zone of proximal development
the difference between what a child might be able to achieve alone and what he or she can do with help from someone more knowledgeable, skills learned within the zone can be too difficult or too easy
Trust vs. Mistrust
birth - 12 months of age
the infant relies totally on others to look after his or her well being, if the infant is cared for he/she gains trust, if not then mistrust