PSY 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Vaginal Lubrication, Natural Killer Cell, Parenting Styles
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Clicker question: five-year old tammy mistakenly believes that her short, wide glass contains less soda than her brother"s tall, narrow glass. Actually, both glasses contain the same amount of soda. This illustrates that tammy lacks the concept of: conservation, egocentrism, assimilation, object permanence. Children in this stage experience the world through senses and actions. Intelligence consists of motor actions toward objects and the sensory feedback gained from these actions. Sucking reflex goes through processes of assimilation and accommodation. Object permanence (~9 months): notion that an object continues to exist even when it is hidden from view; one of the key accomplishments of this stage. Children at this stage can represent things with words and images (language development) but lack logical thinking. Reasoning is based on immediate appearance; not logic. Children"s thinking is egocentric (limitation from seeing others perspective) Conservation: reflects understanding that an action is reversible. Children at this stage can use abstract reasoning and abstract logic.
