PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Object Permanence

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Dwayne Pare

Document Summary

Piaget conducted loosely structured interviews instead of formal experiments, in which he posed problems for children to solve, observed their actins carefully and questioned them about their solutions. Interested in children"s error, which would provide insights into children"s though processes. Assumed that a child is an active seeker of knowledge and gains an understanding of the world by operating on it. Organized units of knowledge about objects, events and actions. Involves two processes: assimilation interpretation of new experiences in terms of present, accommodation modification of present schemes to fit with new schemes experiences, for example, a child may call all four-legged creatures doggie . The child learn he needs to accommodate his schemes, as only one type of four-legged creature is dog . It"s through accommodation that the number and complexity of a child"s schemes increase and earning occurs. When children cover their eyes, they think they are invisible.