ANTH 204 Lecture Notes - Somatosensory System
24 Mar 2013
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0: neonates have no idea of the permanence of objects. 1: children learn progressively about the permanence of substances, weight, and volume. 2: the notion of space integrates visual, auditory, and tactile perceptions. 3: the notion of time is acquired progressively. It requires learning about simultaneity and correlating duration and succession. 4: children develop progressively a practical notion of causality. At first, they do not distinguish between goal and cause. There is no clear distinction between animate and inanimate entities. It requires an understanding of the notions of reversibility and transitivity. Ideas do not take place only in the mind, but in our environment as well. (a combo of both) Once you know what is going on around you, you can start to understand it. Classifications arise from a knowledge of the results of specific situations. Brain and mind are not equivalent: big brain doesn t mean smart, development of specific sections of the brain does affect intelligence though.
