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pysch chap 5
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |