Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Jean Piaget, Conceptual System, Cognitive Development

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

445-455: which of the following statements about newborns is false, newborns cannot discriminate odours. Observed own children: found that kids don"t think the same way as adults, 4 stages of cognitive development, (age ranges approximate, (stages not completely independent) Period of formal operations (11 yrs +) Nothing exists apart from child"s own perceptions and motor reactions. Look at organization of sensory and motor reactions: piaget schemas (at birth variety of reflexes) Coordination of activities is not present until 5 months (both hands is 7 months) Pseudoimitation is present: child can imitate, but only if actions just produced. Sticking out tongue (they can"t see their own tongue) 18-24 months: efficient imitation, representational thought. Represented by some symbol: show object permanence. When the sensory experience stops, you understand that the object or target is still there (objects don"t just vanish) Conceptual system of higher-order schemas (the external world exists and i can operate in it) Rules not fully acquired until age 7.