Infant Cog Dev

Question 1

What is perception?

Answer 1

The process of organizing and interpreting sensory info to recognize meaningful object and events

Question 2

What is Cognition?

Answer 2

All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating

Question 3

What are the 3 fundamental processes of cognition?

Answer 3

1. storing information
2. categorizing stored information
3. creating mental images of objects

Question 4

What is a mental operation?

Answer 4

The logical thinking skills children develop, with early operations being based on senses and actions, and later ones becoming internal, abstract, and hypothetical

Question 5

What is a scheme?

Answer 5

mental structures that allow people to make sense of and interpret new information

Question 6

Name stage 1 of SM, describe it, the age range, and the object concept associated with it.

Answer 6

Reflex Stage, 0-1 months
basic sucking, looking, grasping, rooting are reflexive in nature
no cognition - purely perceptive
OC: no object concept, tuned into self, fails visual tracking

Question 7

Name stage 2 of SM, describe it, the age range, and the object concept associated with it.

Answer 7

Primary Circular Reactions, 2-4 months
1st acquired adaptations: initial responses are by chance, then repeated, focused on self
OC: No object concept, fail visual tracking

Question 8

Name stage 3 of SM, describe it, the age range, and the object concept associated with it.

Answer 8

Secondary Circular Reactions, 4-8 months
Involves baby w/ an object/person
Acting to reproduce effect, and interested in env. consequence of action
NOT GOAL-DIRECTED
OC: beginning of object concept, more tuned into objects
Extends search in visual tracking, but does not know that hidden objects exist

Question 9

Name stage 4 of SM, describe it, the age range, and the object concept associated with it.

Answer 9

Coordination of Secondary Schemes, 8-12 months
Starts applying multiple schemes to same object/person
Applying 1 scheme in service of another
Actions ARE GOAL DIRECTED
OC: improved object concept, actively searching for hidden objects, A not B error

Question 10

Name stage 5 of SM, describe it, the age range, and the object concept associated with it.

Answer 10

Tertiary Circular Reactions, 12-18 months
Take independent and varied actions to actively discover the properties of people/objects
e.g: sippy cup dropping
est. cognitive structures
OC: more complete object concept, No A not B error, when journey to hiding spot is not visible, fails to find object

Question 11

Name stage 6 of SM, describe it, the age range, and the object concept associated with it.

Answer 11

Final Stage, 18-24 months
early stages of mental trial and error
est. representational abilities
OC: true object concept, exhaustive search