PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Free Group, Mental Model, Egocentrism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

Cognition: complex mental process including memory, planning. Minds of children are completely different from adults". Children are active learner, motivated to learn the world. Schema (schemes): mental model integrating new information) reshape. Assimilation (new information integrate to existing schema all ways of think. Accommodation ( new information not fit existing schema so we have to change or. 4 stages ( they have sequence, cannot change orders ) You can know what children think by looking what they do. Child uses sensors, motor activity/skills to learn about the world. Cognition is not capable to abstract thinking (no past, no future) We can understand object or a person that is continuously existing even though we cannot see them. Yes, he was right, however, he seriously underestimated children. Base on the modern science, children are much cleverer: they understand for numbers, basic laws and physics. Animism: they believe animated object are alive ( the perspective is their own perspective.