PSYC2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Animism, Egocentrism
9 Sep 2018
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In the three stages following the sensorimotor stage, children can form mental representation (operations) Operations: cognitive schemes that describe ways in which children act on their world. Pre-conceptual phase (2-4 years: symbolic thoughts. With age, make-believe gradually becomes: more detached from real-life conditions, less self-centered, more complex, sociodramatic play. Animistic thinking: belief that inanimate objects have lifelike qualities. Artificialism: belief that natural events are caused by people (usually the child) Egocentrism: failure to disti(cid:374)guish others" (cid:448)ie(cid:449)s fro(cid:373) o(cid:374)e"s o(cid:449)(cid:374, three-mountain problem. The transition from preoperational to concrete operational thoughts. But some researchers claim this task is too difficult. Children can respond without egocentrism when given a less complicated visual display. Limitations: seriation, class inclusion, hierarchical classification, conservation. Knowledge that a subordinate class must always be smaller than the superordinate class in which it is contained. The transition from preoperational to concrete operational thought. Thinking in the preoperations stage is intuitive, lacking logic.
