Developmental Psychology Exam 2 Prep Exam With Already Solved Answers.

Assimilation - Answer - incorporating what you are learning to what you had learned previously Accomidation - Answer - changing or modifying information from old information ex: bottle to cup Piaget believes that all children pass through the same stages. What are these stages? - Answer 1. sensorimotor (birth - 2) 2. properational (2-7) 3. concrete operational (7-11) Sensorimotor - Answer - learning through senses (has 6 stages) - watching and then acting Object Permanence - Answer - understanding things are there even without a visual cue Infant memory is referred to.. - Answer Infantile amnesia Language aquisition - Answer - how we learn language, the formation of language Nominive - Answer - naming, being descriptive Theory 1 for language: Infants are taught - Answer - can understand sounds - at 10 month can relate sounds to words - Skinner's reinforcement theory: quantity and quality of talking to a child affects rate of language development - both reinforcement and punishment