EDF3115 Final (with Errorless Answers)

2 complimentary processes that explain how humans learn correct answers assimilation and accomodation assimilation correct answers process of interpreting new ideas into old schemas For example, infants know how to grab their favorite rattle and thrust it into their mouths. When they come across some other object -- say daddy's expensive watch, they easily learn to transfer their "grab and thrust" schema to the new object. accommodation correct answers process of changing old schemas to match the new object or information. Infants come across a new object -- say a beach ball -- they will try their old schema of grab and thrust, which of course works poorly with it. So she adapts the old schema to fit the new object: Perhaps "squeeze and drool" would be an appropriate title for the new schema. The Sensorimotor Stage correct answers from birth to about two years old The infant uses senses and motor abilities to understand the world, beginning with reflexes and ending with complex combinations of sensorimotor skills that culminates in the development of thought. Sensimotor stage tasks correct answers primary circular reactions , secondary circular reactions, object permanence, mental representation, deferred imitation, mental combinations primary circular reactions correct answers An infant's action of her own that serves as a stimulus to which she responds with the same action, and around and around she goes. secondary circular reactions correct answers action that extends out to the environment: Infant may squeeze a rubber duckie. It goes "quack." That's great, so she does it again, and again, and again. She is learning "procedures that make interesting things last." object permanence correct answers Between 12 months and 24 months the understanding that things still exist even when they are out of sight. mental representation correct answers Around one and a half the ability to hold an image in her mind for a period beyond the immediate experience Preoperational Stage correct answers 2 to about 7 years old The use of symbols, creative play, clear understanding of past and future, egocentric egocentric correct answers Child sees things mostly from one point of view: her own! Concrete operational stage correct answers age 7 to about 11 The crowning achievement of the concrete operational stage is the development of conservation, the understanding that the amount of something remains the same despite changes in appearance if nothing is added or taken away.