Psychology 2035A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Skills, Jean Piaget, Intelligence Quotient
11 Dec 2016
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Background: trained as a biologist (expert in mollusks), worked part time with kids at binet institute (developing new iq test) cognitive development. While working with children, he realized that he had an interest in. Kid"s reasoning tasks revealed how cognitive abilities develop. Piaget"s theory of cognitive development: sensory motor stage. Infants cannot represent objects in thought: can only respond to what they see, hear and touch. What they can experience with their senses. Children begin using language that has representational thought. However, their understanding of concepts is weak - abstract idea about what a group of objects has in common. Animistic thinking if an object moves, it must be alive. Thinking tends to be egocentric perceive world in terms of their own. Lack firm grasp of cause effect relations (example will a bike work if you: assume that effect is a cause (example ask a child why the sun.
