PSY-1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Egocentrism, Object Permanence, Jean Piaget
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How thinking, problem solving, and memory skills change over time. Kids/individuals play an active role in their growth. Must progress through the stages in the same order, but may be at different rates. In-born tendency to make sense of new data. Try to fit new things into old schema. Works with similar things, not with different. Change your understanding to fit new data. Can then move to the next stage. Go from single words to full sentences and more. Only see the world from their own perspective. Involves the ability to recognize the mental state of others. Between 3-4 year olds start to develop. By 4-5 years can anticipate friend"s false beliefs. Tendency to focus on only one (obvious) aspect of an object or problem at a time. Can reason with (manipulate) objects present or in memory. Can attend to more than one feature at a time. Could come later or maybe not at all.
