PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gender Role, 6 Years, Object Permanence

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

Document Summary

It is about how we change over the course of our lives. We will focus on big changes early and late. Recent evidence extending and qualifying this theory. Decline in the senses vision, smell and hearing. Consequence is increase in health cost and increase in fatal car accidents. Early psychologists who started his work in the early 1900s and was still active in the 1950s. Rather than doing experiments, piaget developed his theory by actually playing with children. Based on what they did, he would design theories about how they develop. He proposed that there were stages of development, which is one of the controversial aspects of his theory. A way to think about the world, to understand the world. Piaget argues that in each of the stages, there is one type of way of thinking about the world that is the dominate schema; the way to think about the world at that point.