PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: 6 Years, Erik Erikson, Scientific Method

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Jeffrey Yen

Document Summary

Object permanence: ability to understand that objects exist even when they cant be sensed: peekaboo! Moves beyond immediate experience (representation: quantity and numbers, pretend play. Manipulation of representations of concrete phenomena (e. g. size, shape, quantity: conservation, deductive reasoning. Hitting glass with a hammer vs. a feather. Emergence of reasoning through practical activity in a social environment. Thought is something that first occurs between two people and is then internalized into our cognition. Zone of proximal development: help: the distance between what a learner can do with help and without. Give people a tsk or skill that is just outside of their ability this is the best way to get someone to learn that new skill. If the gap is too large, people will not learn. Outer ring is what i cant do. Middle ring is what i can do with help (zone of proximal. Inner ring is what i can do.