ch. 6 Flashcards
innate reflex, look and listen to everything, how they learn
curiosity
develops around 4 months old, can recognize a face with only one interaction
face recognition
evident around 3 months, stabilizes around 9 months, memory for movement, emotions or thoughts not using words, no words to describe these things no words for feelings
implicit memory
long-term memory that’s concerned with recollection of facts and events
explicit memory
inability to remember anything before the age 2-3 years old, myelination and neural development in limbic system, non-verbal memory - not encoded with words - hard to describe
infantile amnesia
6 stages of sensorimotor stage
newborn reflexes, primary circular reactions, secondary circular reflexes, coordination of secondary reactions, tertiary circular reactions, mental representations
exploration through using reflexes - involuntary actions
newborn reflexes, birth to 1 month
more interaction, adaptive reflexive reaction, repeat pleasurable actions
primary circular reactions (1-4months)
repeating events which a child finds interesting, trying to shake or swing things
secondary circular reflexes (4-8m)
intentional or goal-oriented behavior, means-end action sequence, object permanence, struggles with A not B
coordination of secondary reactions (8-12m)
does action with goal of discovering what happens when they do an action, solves a not b search error
tertiary circular reactions (12-18m)
think before doing, using mental representations - moves to pre operational thought, symbolic thought
mental representations (18 m - 2y)
expresses a whole thought in just one word
holophrase
apply a word to what they have a mental representation for
under extension
overapply a concept to something that it doesn’t apply to, knows a ball is round and then sees an apple and sees that it is round so it is a ball
overextension
