Psychology 2040A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Animism, Egocentrism, Cognitive Development
6 Mar 2020
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Review of jean piaget"s theory: constructivist approach. Four universal, invariant stages: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational. Concrete operational: 7-11, thought becomes more logical, flexible, and organized, more closely resembling the reasoning of adults, they do much better on problems when they are looking at the real world in front of them (ex. Concrete objects: can perform mental operations (mental actions they obey logical rule, not egocentrism and animistic thinking, can do conservation tasks, decentration, reversibility. Seriation: the ability to order items along a quantitative dimension, such as length or weight: can perform hierarchical classification (ex. Class inclusion problem: transitive inference: the ability to seriate mentally, cognitive maps: mental representations of familiar large-scale spaces (ex. Follow up research on concrete operational thought: conservation often delayed in tribal societiesconservation often del, can be specific to life experiences (ex. Street vendors in brazil or weavers in southern mexico: going to school in western society gives experience on piagetian tasks.
