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cognitive development
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- 1cognitive developmenta process of adaptation to the changing
world around us. - 2adaptationinvolves
taking in, processing, organising and
using new information in ways which
enable us to adjust to changes - 3Assimilationthe process of taking in
new information and fitting it into and
making it part of a pre-existing mental
idea. - 4Accommodationinvolves changing a pre-existing mental idea in order to fit new
information. - 5schemaa mental idea of what
something is and how to act on it. - 60-2 y/o stagesensorimotor
- 7key features sensorimotor:- non verbal
- coordinate movements from the senses
- crawl, stand, walk
- don't know how to react (throwing, breaking things.)
- learn motor skills - 82-7 y/o stagePRE-OPERATIONAL STAGE
- 9Pre-operational stage key features:- begin thinking symbolically
- egocentrism (difficult seeing others pov)
-centration (can only focus on one thing) - 107-12 y/o stage:concrete operational stage
- 11concrete operational stage- can perform mental operations (knowing consequences)
- use time, matter, space
- - 12formal operational stage- thinking becomes sophisticated
- can solve problems
- develop emotions - 1312+ y/o stage:formal operational stage
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- Year 10 Psychology Flashcards on cognitive development , created by Zoey Cox on 04/10/2022.
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