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8-Development Psychology |
The study of our physical, cognitive, social and emotional changes throughout our whole lives from pre-natal to preteen to retirement |
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8-Cognitive development |
how we learn to think, know, remember and communicate |
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8-Jean Piaget believed |
Humans fo through specfic stages of cognitive development & intellectual progression |
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8-Jean Piaget asked "how does knowledge grow" |
Schemas-mental framework that help interpret information |
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8-We strive for Cognitive Equilibrium |
harmony between our thoughts processes and our enviroment |
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8-Jean Piaget proposed we adapt our new experiences through 2 processes_________ and ______ |
Assimiation and Assumption |
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8-Assimilation |
we use our existing "schemas" to interpret new experiences |
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8-Accomadate |
With more interactions and experiences we accomadate and adjust our schemas |
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8-Jean Piaget 4 Stages of Cognitive Development |
1-Sensorimotor stage 2-Pre-operational stage 3-Concrette operational stage 4-Formal operational stage |
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8-Stage 1-Sensorimotor stage |
Birth to age 2 - experience the world through senses, see,hear, feel, touch; lacks object permanence-thinks object disapear when they are covered |
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8- Stage 2-Pre-operational stage 1st-1/2 |
Age 2 to 6 or 7yrs - marked by Egocentrism; "It's all about me!". . belief in Animism, objects, like toys have thoughts and feelings. Struggles with Reversibility. Has Centration - a child's tendency to fixate on just one problem or object.
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8-Stage 3-Pre-operational stage - 2nd-1/2 |
Kids blossom, Theory of mind - ability to understand other people's thoughts, feeling and perceptions as well as their own can also start to predict behavior. |
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8-Stage 4-Formal operational stage |
12 yr to death-abstract thinking, problem solving and hypothetical questions |
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8-Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky |
Emphassized how early development occurs through parental instruction and interaction with social environments - parental scaffolding "molding" |
