PSYCH211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Behaviorism, 18 Months, Mental Representation
24 Nov 2016
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Little experimenters: children, big roll in shaping their development. Psychological structures or ways of making sense of experiences. Achieving adult-like though requires changes of our schemes. Conservation (ie. cooked dinner, get container and decided it was too small or to big) ability to understand how shape affects the quantity. Tall things that hold more is wrong, evidence (new situation) enter disequilibrium and stimulate the accommodation: organization. Once children form new schemes, they are arranged and linked together/ Think with their eyes, ears, hands and other sensorimotor equipment: repeated, back into our current schemas, start at equilibration, scheme doesn"t work disequilibrium (cid:498)organized(cid:499) Don"t carry out many (cid:498)activities in their heads: didn"t last long, through behaviorist principles. Key behaviors: repeating chance behaviors, intentional behaviors, mental behaviors. Chance behaviors: substage 1-3 (up to 8 months) Unintentional behaviors and are repeated for a particular outcome. More symbolic interpretations of the world is missing.
