PY 352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Lev Vygotsky, 18 Months, Object Permanence

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PY 352
• Professor: Carolyn Gibson

Document Summary

Basics of piaget"s theory: general theory of development: all aspects of cognition change in an integrated, or similar, fashion, four universal, invariant stages, sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational. Structure of cognition: schemes organized ways of making sense of experience, schemes change with age, at first they are based on action (motor) patterns, later, they move to a mental (internal depiction) level. In substage 6 (18-24 months), mental representations begin to form. Internal, mental depictions of information: arrive at solutions without having to physically experiment with possibilities. Images: objects, people, places: concepts: categories, can manipulate with mind, solve invisible displacement problems, deferred imitation, make believe play, preoperational 2 to 7 years, concrete operational 7 to 11 years, formal operational 11 to adult. Testing piaget: babies as young as 2. 5 months stare more at the impossible situations, suggesting they have object permanence.