Bell Ringer

1. Bell Ringer What is the rooting reflex? How does a toddler learn? Have you ever seen a mother of one species be a mother to a baby of a different species (i.e. a dog mothers a cat)?

2. Sec. 2 Cognitive and Emotional Development

3. Cognitive Development

4. How Knowing Changes • Schema – a conceptual framework used to make sense of the world. • Assimilation – the process of fitting objects and experiences into one’s schemas. • Accommodation – adjustment of one’s schemas to include newly observed events and experiences.

5. Look at it like this • Schemas = file folders in your head used to understand the world. • Files – Sports, Music, People, etc. • Assimilation is when you learn about a new band or sport. You put it in the file folder that already exists. • Accommodation is when you learn about something that you don’t have a file folder for.

6. Object Permanence • A child’s realization that an object exists even when he/she can’t see or touch it. • A child’s ball rolls under the couch, if the children goes and gets the ball, they have object permanence. • If not, they probably forgot the ball ever existed.

7. Representational Thought • The ability of a child to picture something in his/her mind.

8. Principle of Conservation • A given quantity does not change when its appearance is changed. • Happens between ages 5-7. • Check out video.

9. Egocentric • Inability to understand another person’s perspective. • “Johnny, how many brothers do you have?” “I have 2.” “How many brothers does your brother Jeremy have?” “None.”

10. Emotional Development

11. Imprinting • Inherited tendency of some newborn animals to follow the first moving object they see. • Important for survival

12. A Critical Period • A specific time in development when certain skills or abilities are most easily learned.

13. Surrogate Mother • A monkey is put in a cage with two mothers. A wire mother that is not soft, but gives food and a cloth mother that has no food. • Which mother did the monkey choose?