Module 4: Cognitive Development

Question 1

accomodation

Answer 1

when we restructure or modify what we already know so that new information can fit in better

Question 2

assimilation

Answer 2

when we modify or change new information to fit into our schemas (what we already know)

Question 3

infantile or childhood amnesia

Answer 3

the idea that people forget everything that happened to them before the age of 3

Question 4

object permanence

Answer 4

the realization that objects (including people) still exist even if they can no longer be seen, touched, or heard

Question 5

primary circular reactions

Answer 5

the first two stages of Piaget’s sensorimotor intelligence which involve the infant’s responses to its own body

Question 6

schema

Answer 6

a set of linked mental representations of the world, which we use both to understand and to respond to situations

Question 7

secondary circular reactions

Answer 7

stages 3 and 4 of Piaget’s sensorimotor intelligence which involves the infant’s responses to objects and people

Question 8

sensorimotor intelligence

Answer 8

Piaget’s term for the way infants think (by using their senses and motor skills) during the first stage of cognitive development

Question 9

tertiary circular reactions

Answer 9

consist of actions (stage 5) and ideas (stage 6) where infants become more creative in their thinking