Cognitive and Perceptual Bases

Cognition

Study of human mental processes and their role in thinking, feeling and behaving

Working memory

Storage and manipulation of information

3 skills that can be proceduralized?

Motor skills, word recognition and speech comprehension

Embodied cognition

using our bodies to talk about space and time

An example of embodied cognition

I work in the city, but live on long island

At what sensorimotor stage do infants begin to search for objects in habitual places, demonstrating more complete object knowledge?

SM 4

What are Piagets 3 criteria for intentional behavior?

1.Have a goal in mind

2.A given obstacle that prevents goal attachment

3.Behavior becomes creative due to new schemes being coordinated together

At what age do infants typically show intentional behavior?

9 months

object-object means end behavior

pulls blanket to get rubber duck

object-adult means end behavior

throws object at adult to get adults attention

adult-object means end behavior

says “ba” and points to get the adult to look at or give them the object

What sensorimotor stage are infants able to imitate invisible models such as speech?

SM 5

What sensorimotor stage do children develop symbolic function?

SM 6

An example of deferred imitation?

pretending to go to work like their mom

Strong cognitive view

Cognition determines language

Weak cognitive view

Early primacy of cognition, but as children get older language has more of an influence on thought.

Correlation view

Language and cognitive achievements are result of common underlying factor

Modularity view

no relationship between language and cognition

Linguistic Determinism

Language determines thought

What is the piagetian view of the relationship between language and cognition?

Strong cognitive view

Which view says there is no relationship between language and cognition?

modularity view