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.