PSYC 1000U Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Jean Piaget, Animism, Cognitive Development
October 23, 2017
Developmental Psych
Lecture 6
Developmental Psychology:
• Study of age related changes in behaviour and mental processes
Major debates
• Nature and nurture
o How is development influenced by interaction between genetic inheritance and
experiences?
• Continuity and stages
o What parts of development are gradual and continuous and what parts change
abruptly?
• Stability and change
o Which of our traits persist and which change through life?
Cognitive development
• Jean Piaget
o Interaction of biology with experience
o Development shaped by the errors we make
o Schemas – blueprint for the way the world works – each category or concept kids
develop a schema
▪ Schemas change due to:
Assimilation – absorbing new information
Accommodation – adjusting old to fit better with new information
o Sensorimotor stage – first stage 0-2 years old
▪ Explores the world with their sense
o Preoperational stage –
▪ Do’t uderstad oept of ass
Ways of thinking
• Egocentric
o Caot take aother’s persos poit of ie
• Animistic
o Believes everything is alive – the floor tripped e
Concrete operational stage
• Children now grasp conservation problems and can transform mathematical functions
like 12- 4 = 8
• Cannot reason abstractly or hypothetically
Formal operational stage
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