PSYB32H3 Lecture 7: Lecture 7
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Left a complex theory that has generated an enormous amount of research on cognitive development. research on sensory motor stage: detailed sequence of children s abilities, 2 abilities children gain. 1)object permanence y prior to this stage, if kids couldn t see it, they didn t know it was there. Don t acquire this until 12 months of age y experiment: habituation display. screen would rotate and comes into contact with the box. If kids have notion of object permanence then they would still think the box exists. If they can see impossible display as being impossible, they would have knowledge of the box even if the screen was covering it. therefore 4/5 month old infants show evidence of object permanence. piaget s task involved motor tasks where kids were required to reach out. That s why he thought object permanence was at 12 months of age.
