PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Jean Piaget, Developmental Psychology
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Psyc 102 - introductory psychology - lecture 14: human development. Being good at perceiving, understanding, and expressing emotions. One approach is to test ability to judge emotions accurately. A: sadness, as judged by the person who made the drawing. Q: what emotion? (someone crying over a dead person) A: grief - as judged by consensus based on context. 1/3 of developmental psychology based on his ideas; very influential. Kids are going to unfold because they are going to unfold physically, because brains are developed that way. Whatever you do to them doesn"t matter. The kids could do things earlier than he said. 1: gradual accumulation of s-r links, no systematic stages, allows for differences. Trying to explain why children are different within the same family. Piagetian theory - kids should grow up the same way. Turns out that, there is something going on in families that makes the children more different than each other than they should be.
