Cognitive

• Schema accomodation


  When a child changes their schemas to adapt to the new information they are being presented with, like adding "barks" or "meows" to "has 4 legs and lives in a house" so they can tell diff between a dog or a cat
• Schema assimilation


  When you relate new information to preexisting schemas
• Schema assimilation is when you interpret new information through schemas. Stimulus generalization is taking reactions and applying them to somewhat similar things to their original stimulus
• Schema accommodation is when you are corrected so you have to change a schema. Stimulus discrimination is when you no longer respond to stimuli that used to trigger a reaction because they no longer fit into the schema
• Jean Piaget


  Came up with the 4 main stages of cognitive development
• Sensorimotor Paiget stage


  1st, develop object permanence, age 0-2
• Preoperational Paiget stage


  2nd, theory of mind + symbolic thought, ages 2-7
• Concrete operational Paiget stage


  3rd, logic, ages 7-12
• Formal operational Paiget stage


  4th, abstract thought, 12 to the rest of your life
• Main criticism of Piaget's stages was that he underestimated the ages in his model
• Egocentrism


  Inability to see the world from another person's point of view
• Preoperational stage


  When a child goes from being egocentric to being able to understand what the people around them are feeling and thinking
• Theory of mind


  A sense of what others are feeling and thinking, leads to empathy
• Preoperational stage


  When a child goes from speaking but not reading or writing and having every object having a singular meaning to symbolic thought
• Symbolic thought


  Ability to string letters together to get meaning and have objects be "stand ins" for ideas (imaginary play)
• Reversibility


  Idea developed in concrete operational stage that numbers or objects can be returned to their original position (4+3-3)
• Conservation


  Idea developed in concrete operational stage that objects maintain the same properties in spite of their appearance
• Seriation


  Part of logical thought developed in concrete operational stage where a child can arrange objects in an order based on specific classification