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Chapter 6
Infancy: Cognitive Development
Jean Piaget
Need to know terms:
-Schemes
-assimilation
-accommodation
Children use assimilation to put new events or experiences into schemes. New information that does not fit or is brand new causes a modification of existing schemes or an accommodation.
Sensorimotor Intelligence
Object Permanence
“Out of sight, out of mind?” Piaget’s description of when the ability to understand that although you cannot see something it still exists.
Strengths and limitations
Some scientists believe Piaget’s Sensorimotor theory “has been overthrown.” Yet there is no easy replacement and some points have been replicated and validated.
Make sure to note the different examples given of the limitations of Sensorimotor theory
Information Processing
Be sure to check out some great lectures on memory TED talks regarding cognitive science
https://www.ted.com/talks?page=2&topics%5B%5D=cognitive+science
Memory Development
Memory can be seen as early as neonates adjusting their sucking rate.
There is a jump in ability at 2-6 months and again at 12 months.
Habituation
Imitation and deferred imitation
Mirror neurons
Your book mentions Carolyn Rovee-Collier and her experiments regarding infant memory capabilites. Here is an in depth article that also deals with Collier’s work http://bernard.pitzer.edu/%7Edmoore/psych199s03articles/R-Collier_memory.pdf
Another in depth view on memory http://vcdp.blog.yorku.ca/files/2011/12/DevPsybio-2000.pdf
Social Influences
Individual differences
Language Development:Video on milestones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7WAfwKi88Q
Language Development: Prelinguistic Vocalizations
Theories on Language Development
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mshp3s4r3u8 The secret case of Genie Wiley
Psycholinguistic theory
Innate factors on acquiring language in set ways
-Interaction between environmental influences and inborn tendency to acquire language
-as humans we have the innate tendencies to attend to language and figure out rules for constructing sentences from ideas.
Emergentist Theory
A child’s ability to understand and produce language emerges naturally from simpler biological, cognitive and social processes.
Also dependent on neural network connections, infants interactions with people who use language, infants linking auditory with more complex language systems, development of strategies for learning names and meanings of things, and infants searching for regularities in word usage.