PSY 2114 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Troll 2, Object Permanence, Cardinality
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Focus on sensory and motor: thinking with senses. Start with re exes, organize into more complex behaviours. Use of one thing to stand for another (ex. symbols can include words, gesture, pictures, sounds) Pretend play: really important for development, be exible in thinking. The differences in results show that the children have dif culty understanding symbols. The 2 year olds don"t understand that the small model room represents the big room. Centration: tendency to focus on a single perceptually striking feature of an object. Take two equal volumes of water in the same size glasses. Transfer one of the glasses of water into a larger container. Appearance vs. reality: confused when appearance and reality con ict. Child assumes that an object is really what it appears to be. Smiling when you feel sad inside, sponge that looks like a rock, dog dressed as a cat.
