PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Operation Kids, Problem Solving, Egocentrism
30 Nov 2016
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Child life development lecture 6 for midterm 2 ------- october 27, 2015. Mental operations: make thinking more systematic and efficient, allo(cid:449) (cid:455)ou to do (cid:272)o(cid:373)ple(cid:454) logi(cid:272)al s(cid:455)ste(cid:373)ati(cid:272) thi(cid:374)ki(cid:374)g that (cid:455)ou (cid:272)ould(cid:374)"t do, decentering. Can think of more then one thing at once. Conservation tasks: ie. width of a drinking glass, changing the width of it kids will start to notice this stuff in this stage: reversibility: Conservation tasks: do something and the undo it, by changing something does(cid:374)"t (cid:374)e(cid:272)essaril(cid:455) (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge its use: egocentrism goes down. Shortcomings: logic can only be applied to concrete, real world objects and events i. e. adding apples and oranges in front of you but if you are asked to do it in your head it may be too complicated. Difficult to think of numbers as representing things can only apply logic to concrete observable events cannot deal with abstract situations: therefore:
