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pysch chap 5
Term | Definition |
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habitutation | decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation |
cognition | mental activities dealing with communicating remembering and thinking |
piagets core idea | our intellectual progression reflects struggle to make sense of our experiences |
Schema | concepts that organizes and interprets information |
assimilate | interpreting new schemas in terms of new ones |
accommodation | adapting our new schemas to incorporate new info |
cognitive develop 4 stages piaget | sensorimotoe,preoperatioinal,concrete operational formal operational |
sensorimotor stage | infants know the world mostly through sensory impressions and motor activity |
object permenance | awarenesse that things exist even when we cant see them |
preoperational stage | child learns to use language but doesn't understand the mental operations |
conservation | properties like mass volume number stay the same despite changes in form |
theory of mind | peoples idea about their own and others perceptions feelings and thoughts |
concrete operational | children gain mental operations that enable them to think logically about events |
formal operational stage | development people think logically about abstract concepts |
critical peroid | experience with certain stimuli produces normal development |