PSY210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cognitive Development, Lev Vygotsky, Egocentrism
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Cognition focuses on mental processes associated with processes related to acquiring knowledge, reasoning, thinking, sensing and producing behaviour. Cognitive development examines how these processes emerge and change over the lifespan, particularly childhood and adolescence. Stages of cognitive development: sensorimotor (0-2 years): exploring objects. Begins with reflexively responding (eg. newborn reflexes) Grasping, shaking, dropping, and other actions in relation to objects provide information about objects" properties. Object permanence- understanding that objects exist independently. A not b error- will look for an object in the location seen most frequently, as opposed to that where the object was seen most recently. By the end of this stage, infants can use gestures. Understand a time sequence/narration of events: preoperational (2-6 years): use of symbols such as words, gestures, graphs, maps and models to represent objects and events. Animism- credit inanimate objects with life and life-like properties (eg. sun is sad because it is cloudy) Egocentrism- difficulty seeing the world from others" points of view.
