PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Jean Piaget, Object Permanence, Developmental Psychology

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Examines physical, cognitive, and social development across the lifespan. Nature/nurture continuity/stages some aspects of development are gradual and continuous. Other aspects change abruptly in stages stability/change. Psychological development occurs in a series of abrupt, age-linked stages. Analogy: caterpillar butterfly like physical development: crawl walk. Modest view: serial: development tends to happen in order i. e. reading can"t happen until letter-sound correspondence is understood. Age-linking; flexible and experience-dependent i. e. reading age depends on when they"re taught letter-sound correspondence. Old mistakes might still happen, but with much less frequency. Jean piaget (1896-1980) cognitive development children make mistakes. Mistakes tell us where they are developmentally (knowledge and skills) schemas, or belief systems, are necessary to make sense of our experiences. Assimilation: interpreting new experiences using existing schemas schemas accommodate new information provided by experiences schema formation. Parent: what is this?" //image of a long-haired boy. Parent: what is this" //image of a different feminine-looking boy then child: a boy?".