Psychology 2035A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Lawrence Kohlberg'S Stages Of Moral Development, Jean Piaget, Animism

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

Document Summary

Background: trained as a biologist( expert on mollusks); worked part-time with kid at binet institute(developing new iq test) Kids" mistakes on reasoning tasks revealed how cognitive abilities develop. Watch them playing, ask questions to them to understand the cognitive development of children. Can only respond to what they see hear and touch -what they experience with their senses. Lack an understanding of object permanence (objects continue to exist even when they cannot been seen: preoperational stage(age2-7) Abstract ideas about what group of objects has in common. Rely on one property to define a concept e. g. , cannot differentiate cats and dogs- both have 4 legs. Engage in animistic thinking if an object moves, it must be alive. Thinking tend to be egocentric perceive world in terms of their own perspective) e. g. , q: why the sky is blue a because it is my favorite color. Assume other people see world as they do (leave out important background info)