PSYC1111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Lev Vygotsky, Object Permanence, Egocentrism
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With enough time to process visual images of flashed faces, 5 month olds displayed same brain signatures of. Spent his life searching for how the mind grew once conscious. Studied children"s cognition all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and. Began interest in 1920s, coming up with questions for children"s intelligence tests. Intrigued by children"s wrong answers, which were similar among same-age children. Convinced that child"s mind is not a miniature model of an adult"s -> children reason differently in wildly. Child"s mind develops through a series of stages (upward march from newborn"s simple reflexes to adult illogical ways abstract reasoning power) -> 8 y/o can understand things a toddler cannot. Core idea: intellectual progression reflects an unceasing struggle to make sense of our experiences: we create schema -> mental molds into which we pour our experiences. Piaget"s theory to the next (each has different characteristics and permits different kinds of thinking)
