PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Shopping Cart, Object Permanence, Egocentrism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: paulabarata

Document Summary

Build schemas through: assimilation- use schema to incorporate new information (fit new information into an existing belief system, accommodation- adjust the schema to fit the new information (modify a belief structure based on experience) Understands world largely through sensory experiences and physical interactions with objects (not through mental representations) Object permanence: understanding that objects continue to exist even when they can no longer be seen. Sensorimotor substages and object permanence: 1. Birth to 1 month: focus is on reflexes, no op, 2. 1- 4 months: random reflex leads to action, which can be repeated, no op, 3. 4-8 months: random event (not a reflex) leads to an action, which may be repeated, beginning of op (retrieves partially hidden objects, 4. 8-12 months: need precedes action, op, but can be easily confused, a not b errors- finding a toy under the first towel and looking there, 5.