PSYA02H3 Lecture : Cognitive Development (Cont.) and Social Development
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Lecture 9: cognitive development (continuation of lecture 8) Perceptual, cognitive and social abilities are happening simultaneously not linearly. Child reaches an understanding that there"s more to the world than what"s in front of it at any point in time. Start talk about things that are not in front of them, in abstract ways. Can perform logical operations and figure things out but only as long as the thing they have to figure out is concrete (if it"s abstract, they cannot figure it out) Prior to this stage, children are egocentric have trouble seeing things from someone else"s perspective. In the concrete operation stage, they start to see the world through other people"s eyes (empathy) Able to accept hypothetical and show understanding of abstract reasoning. Piaget notion we have reach these levels in order to build up on them. Piaget is like the freud of developmental psychology.
