PSYCH211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Cognitive Development, Working Memory, Problem Solving

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH211
• Professor: Shaylene Nancekivell

Document Summary

Piaget"s preoperational stage: appearance changes but certain physical characteristics don"t. Piaget"s conservation task: video, the child determines size based on look even if they are an equal amount, the one that looks more is the bigger one, there are lots of variation, mass, number, etc Focusing on one characteristic and ignoring everything else: irreversibility. Inability to mentally go through events and go to the beginning to trace the initial thought: focus on perceptual appearance. Contributing to inability to conserve, they cannot keep track of what is happening to the object and that it is not changing. When can children (cid:498)succeed(cid:499) at these tasks: number, mass, liquid: 5-7 years, weight: 8-10 years, approximate as to when they can start to do these tasks. But what else does this view not take into consideration: wording/ language used, try to ask questions without being bias, influence of imagination, tasks are interconnected with other tasks.