PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Egocentrism, Jean Piaget, Object Permanence

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Martha Savage

Document Summary

Lecture 22 developmental stages module 14. 2 15. 3. Cognition all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. Jean piaget psychologist who became intrigued with children making wrong answers on intelligence tests children reason differently than adults struggle to make sense of our experiences. The maturing brain builds schemas a concept or framework that organizes and interprets. His core idea: that the driving force behind our intellectual progression is an unceasing. Information (schemas of cats, dogs, concept of love) To explain how we use and adjust our schemas, piaget proposed two more concepts: assimilation interpreting our new experience in terms of our existing schemas, accommodation adapting our current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information. Piaget"s stages of cognitive development: sensorimotor stage. Take everything through their senses and actions hearing, looking, touching. Lack object permanence the awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived. Also have stranger anxiety: preoperational stage. Age 2 to 6 or 7 yrs old.