Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: John Bowlby, Sigmund Freud, Teddy Bear

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mike Atkinson

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Q: prof west thinks that her child jon is in the period of concrete operations (according to piaget). Which of the following would support her predictions: jon fails a conservation task, success on conservation and he can think abstractly, jon shows reversible thinking and can draw a map showing the route to school. Note: probems in methodology as well: jon shows object permanence and his thinking shows egocentrism, assimilation is present but not accommodation, they have the pressure to say yes or no to high status figures. Conservation: (cid:498)which row has more faces or do they have the same? (cid:499) Use familiar scenes to child rather than mountains if child hasn"t seen mountain before. Passing photos to mom they are showing you that they: mountains ok, other scenes no problem. So young child does have rudimentary understanding of other view points understand diff perspectives. 3. 5: won few cards and never mentions competition.