Cognitive Development

Cognition in Late Adulthood

Decline in the speed of processing. Memory decline. Wisdom may improve in this part of adulthood.

Accomodation

Developed by Piaget. Occurs when a person adjusts their schema to new info

Sensorimotor Stage

Piaget's first stage. Lasts from birth until about 2 y/o.Infants construct an understanding of the world by coorinating sensory experiences with motor actions.

Lev Vygotsky

Recognized that cognitive development is an interpersonal process that happens in a cultural context.

Cognition in Middle Adulthood.

The period that many people reach the peak of their intellectual skills.

Cognitive Development

Refers to how intelligence, thought, and language processes change as a person grows.

Schema

A mental concept or framework that organizes information and provides a structure for interpreting it.

Core Knowledge Approach

A perspective on infant cognitive development that holds that babies are born with domain-specific knowledge systems. Among these are those involving space, number sense, object permanence, and language. Criticism---> An infant's social immersion in the world is ignored.

Hypothetical-Deductive Reasoning

Adolescents can think more like scientists when they devise plans to solve problems.

Assimilation

Developed by Piaget. Occurs when a person incorporates new information into existing knowledge.

Adolescent Egocentrism

Involves the belief that others are as preoccupied with the adolescent as they are with themselves. They also feel that they are invincible.

Formal Operational Stage

Occurs during 11-15 y/o. Thought is more abstract, idealistic, and logical than thought during the concrete stage. They can think in hypothetical possibilities.

Concrete Operational Stage

Occurs during 7-11 y/o. Involves using operations and replacing intuitive reasoning with logical reasoning in concrete situations.

Object Permanence

Piaget's term for the crucial accomplishment of understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot directly be seen, heard, or touched.

Cognition

Refers to the operation of thinking and also to out cognitive skills and abilities.

Preoperational Stage

Second phase of development. Occurs between 2-7 y/o. This type of symbolic thinking that children are able to accomplish during this stage is limited. Thought is egocentric and it is intuitive.

Cognition in Early Adulthood

Thinking becomes more realistic, reflective, and pragmatic in young adulthood.

Jean Piaget

Traced cognitive development through childhood into adulthood.