Summary: Prenatal, Infant And Toddler Development

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  • Who thinks cognitive development occurs as child’s mind forms psychological structures and modifies them to fit with external reality 

    Piaget
  • Cognition develops in similar ways at about the same ages

    Stage Theory
  • Children ACTIVELY construct their knowledge

    Constructivist Approach
  • Psychological structures or organized ways of making sense of experiences

    Schemes 
    (changes with age)
  • Process of building/refining schemes through interaction with the environment (assimilation and accommodation)

    Adaptation
  • External world is interpreted in terms of current schemes (absorbed)Ex. dog scheme: four legs, two, ears, and a tail

    Assimilation
  • Create new schemes or adjust old schemes to better fit the environment (change scheme)Ex. Horse Scheme: four legs, two ears, a tail, AND HOOVES

    Accommodation
  • Assimilation or Accommodation?One-year-old Tori holds the remote control to her ear like a telephone

    Assimilation
  • Assimilation or Accommodation?At 2, Tori realized the remote control doesn't ring and no voices come from it. Tori no longer holds the remote control to her ear.

    Accommodation
  • Internal rearrangement and linking of schemes to form an interconnection cognitive system

    Organization

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