CAS PS 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Imaginary Audience, Personal Fable, Object Permanence
9 Nov 2018
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4th graders put the eyes on the face, because they believe that is where all eyes should go believe that the task is dull. 6th graders think beyond rapidly and put the eye in more creative places. Given weights and length of string to study oscillations. Combinations and relations concrete doesn"t evaluate all possibilities. Reflective abstraction: thinking about what other people are thinking. Personal fable: explains the risky behavior of adolescents and the belief that bad things can"t happen to them, uniqueness . Sex differences in imaginary audience and personal fable suggest that some of these might be socialized. (1) objections to piaget"s methods, believes they lack cognitive structures to solve certain problems at different stages. Competence vs performance (the difference between a child having knowledge of a concept and being able to show that they know it through action) Object permanence: piaget believe infants of 8-9 months have no perception of object permanence; maybe manual search required in.
