Psychology 2035A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Animism, Abortion Debate, Intelligence Quotient

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

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Jean piaget: trained as a biologist (expert on mollusks); worked part-time with kids at binet. At binet, they were developing new iq test. Various iq tests for different ages: during this time, he became interested in cognitive development. Intrigued by the types of mistakes kids would make on reasoning tasks. Spent next 60 years interacting with children. Piaget(cid:859)s theory of cog(cid:374)itive develop(cid:373)e(cid:374)t: consists of four stages: I(cid:374)fa(cid:374)ts (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:859)t represe(cid:374)t o(cid:271)je(cid:272)ts i(cid:374) thought (can only respond to what they see, hear, touch what they experience with their senses) By end of this stage, develop sense of object permanence. Children use language (representational thought; words represent things) They might respond with (cid:862)(cid:271)e(cid:272)ause it(cid:859)s (cid:373)(cid:455) fa(cid:448)ourite (cid:272)olour(cid:863: assume other people see the world as they do (leave out important background information because they know what it is and assume you know this information as well) Most thought that it would work: also assu(cid:373)e that the (cid:862)effe(cid:272)t(cid:863) is (cid:862)(cid:272)ause(cid:863)