PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Observational Learning, Self-Actualization, Human Nature
Lecture 12
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
1:36 PM
Development & Personality
Piaget & Cognitive Development
• Children are active learners
• Stages of radical reorganization that are domain general
• Importance of equilibration - maintaining a balance between our experience and our
thoughts
• Interested in the development of knowledge - genetic epistemologist
• Assimilation - fit new objects, events, experiences in existing schema - no change in
schemas
• Accommodation - modifying one's schema to incorporate new info or creating new
schemas
Sensorimotor - 0-2 yrs.
• Experience primarily through the senses
• Simple motor responses to sensory stimuli
• Respond to here & now
• Not what they can remember or imagine
• Lack of object permanence
• Limited deferred imitation
Preoperational 2-7 yrs.
• Use of words and symbols
• Start of symbolic/make believe play
• Ability to construct mental representations but inability to perform mental operations
• Poor performance on tests of conservation
• Hampered by egocentrism
Concrete Operations 7-11 yrs.
• Grasping concrete analyses and performing mental operations, but only for actual physical
events
• Concrete operations - reversibility compensation
• Organization/categorization
Formal Operations 11y-Adult
• Can understand hypothetical reasoning beyond the here and now
• Abstract reasoning
Criticisms and Implications
• Development is more continuous
• Probably underestimated children's competence
• Culturally biased
• Highly influential
• Introduced notion that child are not mini adults
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Piaget & cognitive development: children are active learners. Stages of radical reorganization that are domain general. Importance of equilibration - maintaining a balance between our experience and our thoughts. Interested in the development of knowledge - genetic epistemologist: assimilation - fit new objects, events, experiences in existing schema - no change in schemas, accommodation - modifying one"s schema to incorporate new info or creating new schemas. Simple motor responses to sensory stimuli: experience primarily through the senses, respond to here & now, not what they can remember or imagine. Start of symbolic/make believe play: use of words and symbols, ability to construct mental representations but inability to perform mental operations, poor performance on tests of conservation, hampered by egocentrism. Concrete operations 7-11 yrs: grasping concrete analyses and performing mental operations, but only for actual physical events, concrete operations - reversibility compensation, organization/categorization. Formal operations 11y-adult: can understand hypothetical reasoning beyond the here and now, abstract reasoning.
