PSYC 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Almost Surely, Motor System, Siamese Cat
3 Dec 2018
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They think it"s a ball because they have never encountered a raw egg before. They would use it like they would use a ball. When it smashes on the ground, they learn something new: equilibrium, child balances assimilation and accommodation, central properties of piaget"s stage theory, qualitative change, domain general, brief transitions. Sensorimotor: sensing and engaging in motor actions. Using the abilities, they have to understand the world works. What i can experience right now in front of me. Words are a symbol for another object. They were not able to perform mental operations. Unable to understand the interrelation between two stages. They"re only going to understand it if it"s concrete. Can imagine how the world can be. Think about things in an abstract way. Can make a hypothesis and test it out until this stage: these stages aren"t right children are able to do abstract thinking at a younger age (they are able to make up imaginary stories)
