PSYC 4230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Habituation, Dishabituation, Deductive Reasoning

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 4230
• Professor: Kim Babb

Document Summary

Main accomplishment at the end of the stage: decentration. Operations: actions performed mentally that have the property of being reversible. Reversibility: the ability to go mentally though a series of steps and then return to the starting point. Concrete: done with objects that can, in principle, be physically acted upon or manipulated. Seriation: the ability to arrange items along a quantitative. Transitive inference: the ability to do seriation, mentally. Class inclusion: the principle that classes of objects can be included in larger classes of objects. Inductive logic: creating general rules based on experience; reasoning from the particular to the general all pumpkins are orange example. Age range: 6 (or 7) 11 years. Abilities: can do tasks that preoperational children couldn"t do, like, can think systematically, but only about concrete (reality- conversation, seriation, etc based) objects or activities. Limitations: systematic fashion: difficulty reasoning about hypothetical situations in a, can"t do abstract thinking, being able to think abstractly.