Assimilation - ANS ✓Absorbing information into an existing schema: calling all
men with beards, Santa.
Accommodation - ANS ✓Changing schemas to make sense of incoming
information: modifying the Santa schema to only certain men with beards.
Sensorimotor stage - ANS ✓The infant is learning through their senses and
developing motor skills.
Substages of sensorimotor - ANS ✓1) Simple reflexes
2) First habits
3) Secondary circular reaction
4) Coordination of secondary circular
5) Tertiary circular
6) Internalization of schemas
Simple reflexes - ANS ✓Sensation and action are coordinated primarily through
reflexive behaviors.
First habits and Primary circular reactions - ANS ✓-coordination of sensation
and 2 types of schemes: habits (reflex) and primary circular reactions
(reproduction of an event that initially occurred by chance)
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Examples of first habits/1* circular reactions - ANS ✓Sucking at will: toes,
thumbs, etc.
Secondary circular reaction - ANS ✓Purposeful behaviors focused on the
external world. The schemes: mental representations of how the world works.
Example of 2* circular reaction - ANS ✓-Infant can pick up rattle, shake it,
repeat.
-Learning sounds, what things look like, how things feel
Coordination of secondary circular - ANS ✓Behaviors become coordinated
and goal-directed.
Tertiary circular - ANS ✓Infant experiments and tries different things.
Example of tertiary circular - ANS ✓Infant shakes rattle, throws multiple times,
lands differently and observes, mealtime throws objects.
Internalization of schemes - ANS ✓Using symbols and internal representation.
Object permanence - ANS ✓An awareness an object exists when out of sight.
Socioemotional development - ANS ✓The social and emotional changes and
individual goes through.
Temperament - ANS ✓An individual's behavioral style and characteristic
emotional responses.
Three temperament types: - ANS ✓1) Easy children
2) Difficult children
3) Slow-to-warm-up children
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