PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Object Permanence, Social Learning Theory, Egocentrism

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: online

Document Summary

Physical development: focus on big changes early and late o, in old age, there is a decline in the senses, especially in vision, smell and hearing. There"s a sharp decline at the end of life. Early psychologist who started his work in the early 1900s and was still active in 1950s. Rather than doing experiments, he played with children. Based on what they did, he would design theories about how they develop. Proposed that there were stages of development, which is one of the controversial aspects of his theory. Schema: a way to think about the world, He argued 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 a point. Mostly through the senses is how you see the world and how you understand the world.