AP Psych Unit 6

Morrow Reflex

When a baby is startled, they will stretch their hands and quickly shrink.

Babinski Reflex

When the underfoot is stroked, the big foot expands out.

Rooting Reflex

When the baby’s cheek is touched, it will face the direction of where its cheek was touched.

Grasping (Palmer) Reflex

When you have your thumb out, the baby will try to grasp the thumb.

Theory of Cognitive Devolopment

Stages of cognitive developments. This theory is discrete, as it believes that there are specific stages with devolopment.

Schemas

Mental frameworks for understanding the environment

Assimiliation

Interpreting new information in the terms of existing information.

Ex: Calling all animals a “dog”

Accommodation

Adapting or changing mental categories to add new information.

Stage 1 of Piaget’s Theory

Sensorimotor Phase. (Birth-age 2)

Learning through physical actions such as playing with objects.

Object Permenance

Obtained during Stage 1.

The idea that objects still exist even when out of view or not perceived.

Stage 2 of Piaget

Preoperational Stage.

Sense of self.

Symbolic Play

Use language but cannot think critically. If you gave them three nickels and one quarter, they would choose the nickel.

Egocentric Thinking

2nd stage. Everything is in their POV.

Animistic Thinking

Inanimate objects have life.

Stage 3 of Piaget Stage

Concrete Operational Stage. (7-11)

Solve problems that apply to concrete events or objects but not abstract items.

Conservation

Basic properties of an object do not change even as the appearance changes.

Stage 4 of Piaget Stage

Formal Operational

12 to early adulthood.

Abstract reasoning and making predictions.