PSYCH 3GG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Jean Piaget, Object Permanence, Behaviorism
9 Mar 2020
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Jean piaget set the stage for current cognitive development ideas. Four stages of development a very physical infant (reflexes, interacting with world: sensorimotor. Perceptually bound (what they know is what they see) Development happens from associating sensory experiences with own actions. Object permanence; the child believing the object still exists even when it can"t be seen (happens at ~8 months old: preoperational. Pretend play is symbolic (because one object symbolizes another) learns using symbols such as words or numbers: concrete operational. 7 to 11 years competence with the mental operations (inference, problem solving, conservation ideas etc. : formal operational. 12 years to adulthood they can do all those mental operations but apply that to abstract ideas formal means it"s so abstract that you"re not even talking about a real example. Sources of developmental change assimilation the process of interpreting new info in terms of previously understood knowledge and theories accommodation changing one"s current understanding to cope with new info equilibration.
