PSY 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Object Permanence, Problem Solving, Inductive Reasoning
22 Jan 2018
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Stage 4: coordination of secondary schemes (8-12) Object permanence: the knowledge that objects continue to exist even when they are out of view. A-not-b error: the tendency to search where objects have been found before, rather than where they were last hidden. Infants make a-not-b error around 8-12 months. Deferred imitation: the repetition of other people"s behaviours after a delay. Problem solving: earn by acting; more and more intentional means and ends. Object permanence: increase in ability to hold mental representation (basic object permanence) Use of symbols increases: symbolic function: ability to make one thing stand for something else, symbolic/pretend pay: pretend to be people they are not. Egocentrism: the tendency to perceive the world solely from one"s own point of view. Conservation: the ability to realize that certain properties of object remain unchanged when the objects" appearances are altered in some superficial way.
