PSY E111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Puberty, Cultural Bias, Secondary Sex Characteristic
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Achieves object permanence: realizes that objects continue to. Preoperational (2-7 years) words exist even when no longer present to the sense. Learns to use language and to represent objects with images and. Achieves conservation of number, mass and weight. Becomes concerned with possible as well as real. Globally influential, validating a number of ideas regarding growth and development in many cultures and societies. However, today"s researchers believe: development is a continuous process, children express their mental abilities and operations at earlier ages, formal logic is a smaller part of cognition. Theory of mind: preschoolers, although egocentric, develop the ability to understand other"s mental states when they begin forming a theory of mind. Puberty is associated with development of primary and secondary sexual characteristics: for boys, early maturation is general beneficial, for girls, early maturation appear to be less beneficial. Adolescence is sometimes, but not usually, turbulent. Kohlberg sought to describe the development of moral reasoning.
