Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
14 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
3 major issues in developmental psychology.
|
Nature / Nurture
Continuity / Stages Stability / Change |
|
|
Rooting reflex
|
touch baby's cheek, it opens mouth and search for a niple
|
|
|
Preferences
|
Turn toward human voices
Gaze longer at figures similar to human faces |
|
|
What is maturation
|
biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience
|
|
|
What is infantile amnesia?
|
inability of adults to retrieve genuine memories of events that occurred before about 3 years of age
|
|
|
Piaget's theory of cognitive development: Schema, assimilation, accomodation
|
Schema - concept on framework that organizes and interprets information
Assimilation - interpreting new experiences in terms of existing schema Accomodation - changing the existing schemas to explain new experiences |
|
|
4 stages: Sensorimotor
|
Develop ability to coordinate sensory input and motor actions
|
|
|
4 stages: Pre-operational
|
Improved extract thought. Basic concepts of object permanence spaces, time, and causality
|
|
|
4 stages: Concrete operational period
|
can master conservation problems
can perform mental operations only on images of tangible objects or actual events |
|
|
4 stages: Formal operational period
|
Form hypothesis and test them
apply mental operation to abstract objects |
|
|
Object permanence
|
Child recognizes that objects continued to exist when they are no longer visible
|
|
|
Conservation
|
awareness that physical quantities remain the same despite changes in their shapes or appearance
|
|
|
Egocentrism
|
limited ability to take another person's view point
|
|
|
Criticism to Piaget's theory
|
Can do some things earlier than expected
|
