Perception and Cognition Across the Life Span – Day 11
12 Cards in this Set
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Cognition
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Our cognitive abilities are our ability to think. This can mean solving problems or self-reflection
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Meta-cognition
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Our ability to think about thinking. Either to think about our thoughts, or to think about the thought of others
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Genetic epistemology
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The study of how we develop an understanding of the world (Piaget). According to Piaget we develop intelligence through our construction of reality and learn through experience.
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Piaget's Keys
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Organization: We systematically organize new information to fit our emerging schema
Adaption: Adjusting to the demands of the environment/situation
Assimilation: Incorporating new information into their existing knowledge
Accommodation: Adapting ones existing knowledge to new in…
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Piaget's 4 stages and what ages they occur
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Sensorimotor age: birth-2 years
Pre-operational: 2-7
Concrete operational: 7-11
Formal operations: 11-adulthood
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Sensorimotor stage
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-Object permanence
-A-not-B error
-Emergence of the use of symbols
-We use language and other symbols to represent the physical and reality of the world
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Pro-operational stage
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Last of conservation
-Reversibility
-Experiment
-Centration V. de-centration
-Movement from static to transformational thought
-Egocentrism
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Concrete operations stage
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-Development of conservation
-Seriation (group things in different order)
-Transitivity
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Formal operations stage
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Thought it more abstract:
-Verbal problem- solving ability
-Increased tendency to think about thought itself
-Thought it full of idealism and possibilities
-Thought it more logical
-Hypothetical-deductive reasoning
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Identify some of the changes that occur in cognition
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-Monitoring ones own cognitive activity during the process of thinking
-Increased introspection, self-consciousness, and intellectualization
-Adolescent egocentrism/ imaginary audience and personal fable
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Personal fable
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Knowing what other people are thinking and not making the same mistakes as them
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Competence v. performance
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What the adolescence is capable of doing and what the adolescence actually foes in the attestant situation
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FSHD 117: THEORIES OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT