PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Irreversible Process, Brazilian Schools In Japan, Egocentrism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Paula Barata

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Contradictions to piaget"s sensorimotor stage: does mental representation (and thus op) occur earlier, 1 month old sucked on one of two pacifiers, 1 teddy + 1 teddy = 2 teddies. Easily perform basic mental operations involving tangible problems and situations: can easily order items, reverse, categorize, has difficulty with problems that require abstract reasoning, mary is taller than susan and sally is taller than mary. Contradictions to piaget"s concrete operational stage: environmental experiences impact the development of concrete operational skills. 9 year old: brazilian school kids (6-9 years old) and brazilian street vendors (6- School kids could conserve on some tasks and street vendors could converse on others. Formal operational (12+: can think logically about concrete and abstract problems, can discuss abstract moral and political theories, able to form and test hypothesis, if this, then that problems. Piaget"s theory: in summary: an enormous influence in theory development and research innovation, order is generally accepted, eg.