PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Solidity, Object Permanence, Syllogism
6 Dec 2013
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Changes occur in the structure of thinking processes. Stages of cognitive development - piaget"s cognitive developmental theory. Allows for fantasy play and deferred imitation. No rotation > 90o rotation >180o rotation. Spatial perspective task copy location and orientation of objects from model. Transitive inferences if a > b and b > c, then a > c. Conditional reasoning if a, then b : if a true, then b true, if a is false, then b can either be true or false. Presented with simple and complex syllogistic items. Wavering (1989): results - s t n e d u t. 100 y r o g e t a. Significant differences in responses between students from the middle school and high school. Middle-school students operated at concrete operations level of reasoning. Present in all normal adults, but impacted greatly by environment (piaget, 1972). Three groups of college students: physics, political science, and english.
