PSYC 1002 Lecture Notes - Jean Piaget, Object Permanence

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1002
• Professor: Matthew Sorley

Document Summary

Developmental psychology: used to be referred to as child psychology. Jean piaget: schemas mental framework we use that contains all the expectations that we have. They change as we age: assimilation (using an existing schema to interpret the world) and accommodation, sensorimotor period 0-2 yr, learn by sensory and motor experiences; hearing, touching, smelling. Lack object permanence: pre-operational 2-7 yrs, learn hundreds of thousands of words. Concrete operational 7-11: mental operations, understanding of identity, less egocentricity. Formal operational 11: more adult like thinking, think logically about the abstract and thee world of ideas. Cognitive development: not necessarily develop in stages, zone of proximal development: the gap between what you can accomplish on your own and what you can accomplish with a little bit of help. Moral development: development of our sense of right and wrong, kohlberg: dedicated his life to see what would make normal people do impossibly bad things to other normal people.