LifeSpan Chapter 5 Terms

don't forget chapter 19 before this lol

Assimilation

Use existing knowledge → understand info

Accommodation

Change schemas due new info

Piaget’s stage One

Sensorimotor (0-2 years)

Piaget’s Stage Two

Preoperational (2-7 years)

Piaget’s Stage Three

Concrete Operational (7-12 years)

Piaget’s Stage Four

Formal Operational (12+ years)

Explain Sensorimotor

Understand world through senses/actions

Explain preoperational

Understand through language/mental images

Explain Concrete Operational

Understand through logic/categories

Explain formal operational

Understand through hypothetical thinking/complex reasoning

Why is memory important?

Learning impossible w/o memory ; Preserve identity/accomplishments

List memory characteristics (Hint: 5 total!)

Timeless/unlimited/fallible/paradoxical/selective

What are the memory influences? (5 total!!)

Motivation/Emotional Connection/Interference/Time and Decay/Rehearsal and Practice

Egocentrism

All about me

Babbling

Infant’s repetition of syllables (ma-ma-ma)

Cooing

Infant’s repetition of sounds (ahh)

Deferred imitation

Imitate someone’s behavior

Infantile amnesia

Not remembering events before four years old

Long term memory

unlimited tore that holds info indefinitely

Mental representation

Internal depiction of object

Object permanence

Object continues to exist even w/o seeing it

Recall memory

Make memory of stimulus before seeing it again

Recognition memory

Identify stimulus you’ve seen before

Schema

Serves as framework of one’s knowledge

Telegraphic speech

Two word utterances by toddlers

Working memory

Holds/processes info for cognitive tasks