Cognitive Development in Infants: Piaget's Sensorimotor Intelligence - Prof. Karin Bartosz, Study notes of Developmental Psychology

Download Cognitive Development in Infants: Piaget's Sensorimotor Intelligence - Prof. Karin Bartosz and more Study notes Developmental Psychology in PDF only on Docsity! The First Two Years Cognitive Development Piaget—Sensorimotor Intelligence • Adaptation • Sensorimotor Intelligence (Stages) • Primary circular reactions – Stage 1 (birth-1 month) Reflexes – Stage 2 (1-4 months) Acquired adaptation • Object permanence-understand an object exist after they cannot see it anymore. Around 8 months… Information Processing modeled on computer functioning Affordances * Opportunity for interaction * Visual cliff More Memory • About 6 month—able to retain information longer • About 1 year old—can imitated a person whose action they had observed a day earlier • Middle of second year—able to remember and reenact more complete sequences **Language Development • Timing varies • Sequence same – Listening responding – Babbling (6-9 months) – First words (about 1 year) **Theories of Language Learning • Infants need to be taught (behaviorism) • Infants teach themselves (verbal learning) • Social impulses foster infant language (social pragmatic) • Hybrid theory