Psychology 2040A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Long-Term Memory, Motor Learning, Procedural Memory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2040A/B
• Professor: J.Bruce Morton

Document Summary

Piaget when a child makes a mistake its because they have the basis of symbolic thought but they cant use these logically because they haven"t internalized them so they can think logically. These internalized operations are things like displacement and volume consistency. Those logical operations don"t yet exist to the child. If child makes an error it tells you something meaningful about the child in the world. Reaching tasks motor development has very slow development so infants may have a good understanding of objects but they may not be able to reflect that understanding of the world in actions because of underdeveloped motor systems. Habituation paradigm slide comes down toy car passed behind slide, then see 2 events. One where car passes behind square and another where car passes through square blocked by square. Shows longer looking times when car passes though cube (impossible events) showing they dishabituate.