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Infancy and Childhood

Infancy and Childhood. Cognitive and Emotional Development. Cognitive Development. Intellectually impressionable Ways of looking at the world: Schemas – conceptual frameworks Assimilation – Working it in Accommodation – Change our schema Object Permanence

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Infancy and Childhood

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  1. Infancy and Childhood Cognitive and Emotional Development

  2. Cognitive Development • Intellectually impressionable • Ways of looking at the world: • Schemas – conceptual frameworks • Assimilation – Working it in • Accommodation – Change our schema • Object Permanence • Realization of existence outside of our perceptions • Representational Thought • Imagination & Recreation

  3. Cognitive Development • 4 stages of development • Sensorimotor Stage • Birth - Two • Mainly reflexive, natural • Preoperational Stage • Two – Six/Seven • Sense of self develops, egocentric, animistic • Concrete Operations • Seven – Eleven • Understand conservation, understand reversibility • Formal Operations • Eleven - onward • Less egocentric, Critical thinking, other points of view, Body Image

  4. Cognitive Development • The Principle of Conservation • 5-7 children understand conservation • Conservation – quantity does not change because appearance changes • Do not understand relationship between height & width • Egocentric

  5. Emotional Development • Attachment – How animals determine their emotional connections • Lorenz’ Geese • Imprinting • Critical Period • Harlow’s Monkeys • Surrogate Mothers • Human Infants • Recognize mother at about 6 months • Separation Anxiety

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