L33 Psych 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Epistemology, Handedness, Egocentrism
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Basic skills, and they get organized and reorganized over time. By four months, vision and inner ears, sense of balance. Patterns of test errors: when he worked in a lab, he didn"t only notice which questions were incorrect, but he noticed what the incorrect answer was, and how it correlated to other children their age. Stage theory: rapid transitions, stages occur in order, you cannot skip stages! Children develop schemes, piaget calls them operations, structures. Too much accommodation drives you up through the stages. Equilibration: when accommodation and assimilation are not in equilibrium, you are pushed up through the stages. **know that this stage starts with reflexes and end with playing pretend/symbolism. Reach for toy if hidden under blanket . Make the a not b error (stage 4) . Reach for toy if hidden under blanket a and the blanket b . Look for toy nearby if its hidden and then disappears .
