PS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Animism, Metacognition, Irreversible Process
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Actively explore and seek to understand their world. Schemas are modified to create equilibrium between environment and understanding. New experiences cause existing schemas to change: piaget"s sensorimotor stage: Understand world through sensory experiences/physical interactions with objects. Lots of things through physical and sensory work. Object permeance: understanding that objects continue to exist even when they can no longer be seen. Happens at about 8 months: piaget"s pre-operational stage. World represented symbolically through words and mental images. Thinking displays irreversibility, centration, animism, egocentrism: piaget"s concrete operational stage. Easily perform basic mental operations involving tangible problems and situations. Often have difficulty with problems that require abstract reasoning: piaget"s formal operational stage. Can think logically about concrete and abstract problems. Cognitive growth occurs as info processing abilities gradually become more efficient. Beliefs about how the mind works and what others are thinking. Lying, deception provide evidence for theory of mind. Kids won"t bother lying if they think mother can read thoughts.
