Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Hans Moravec, Imaginary Audience, Personal Fable

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas-DeHoog

Document Summary

Psychology 1000 lecture 8 child development pt. Piaget"s theory: adaptation: building mental representations of the world through direct interaction with it, assimilation: fit new information into existing framework, accommodation: change existing framework to fit new info. Piaget"s 4 stages of cognitive development: sensorimotor period: separation anxiety happens, preoperational period: begin using symbols, concrete operational period: have new abilities, sort objects into categories, formal operational period: can think hypothetically and logically. Children"s knowledge and mental strategies develop in pockets rather than globally as. Usually, but depending on the task, experience, language, familiarity with objects involved. Contrary to piaget"s theory: culture impacts development. Possible 5th stage? (post-formal thinking: can reason logically on either side of an argument, can see and accept contradictions. Object permanence really emerges before 8 month with age-appropriate tasks. Stages of development: development is more continuous and happens earlier than piaget proposed, development within each stage is more inconsistent than piaget proposed.