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Scheme

Organized pattern of thought or action

Stage 1: Sensorimotor Thought - Birth-Age 2

If an object is not close to a baby, it is not in the baby's thoughts

Stage 2 of Schemes

Symbolic, Fantasy Play

Intuition

Gut Feeling

Animism

Inanimate objects are living and they having feelings

Artificialism

Natural events are controlled by humans

Stage 3

Concrete Operations

Stage 4

Formal Operational Thinking (Age 12 and above); you can think about abstract thoughts

Adolescent Egocentrism

your inability to distinguish between your own abstract feelings and that of others

Imaginary Audience

the belief that everybody is just as concerned about your thoughts, your beliefs, your feelings just as much as you are. This can lead to extreme self-consciousness

Personal Fable

Two aspects. First part is that you feel that your feelings and thoughts are really unique. Nobody has thought of these issues like you have. The feeling of being invincible. This can lead teenagers to risky behaviors, unprotected sex, drinking/driving

Vygotsky’sSociocultural View of Cognitive Development

The Role of Speech and Language

Social and Private Speech

Children develop schemes from culture or interactions with others and languages around them

Social Speech

Refers to someone talking to you, or what others are saying about you

Private Speech

Internal speech. Example: When teaching a child to tie their shoes, they will say it aloud

What does speech do?

It carries the concept to the child

Information Processing Approach

Information Processing

Models of Memory: Stores Model

this model views information as going through storage containers in your mind

Sensory store

Can store a vast amount of information, but only holds it for a fraction of a second or 1-2 seconds at most. Everything you see, touch, smell, taste, hear

Short term store

some of this information you store for a short amount of time, everything you are aware of right now

Chunking

We can hold about 5-9 chunks of information

Age Differences in Chunking

the ability to gather large chunks develops as you get older

Length of time for STS

If we are not actively attending to it, we will forget it0

Long term storage

long term memory. Infinite capacity. We think of this as permanent. Doesn't always mean you are attending to it or retrieving it

Executive processor

manages the activities of the other stores. Determines what gets passed on and what doesn't. It helps decide what you attend to and what you don't attend to. In many ways it's like the boss