PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Object Permanence, Cognitive Development

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

Document Summary

Module 13 & 14 development through childhood. Developmental psychology examines physical, cognitive and social development across the life span. Stages extreme view: 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. Eg, reading can"t happen until letter-sound correspondence is understood: age linked: flexible and experience dependent. Eg. reading age depends on when taught letter-sound correspondence: abrupt. Old mistakes might still happen, but with much less frequency. Mistakes tell us where they are developmentally (knowledge and skills) schemas are necessary to make sense of our experiences assimilation is interpreting new experiences sing existing schemas schemas accommodate new information provided by experience. Piaget stages sensorimotor stage: birth, experience world through sensing and acting, development of memory. Early: lacking memory (out of sight, out of mind) later: development of object permanence. Preoperational stage: child can reason intuitively late: understand perspective of others.