PSY 322 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Egocentrism, Lev Vygotsky, Animism

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19 Sep 2016
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Remember cognitive development from birth-2 years many synapses and neural connections are forming. Also, think about the physical development of children during the preschool years children are able to coordinate more complex movements and explore their environments. Children are also learning inhibition and impulse control. Thinking during the preschool years is more creative and complex. Piaget: preoperational thought: according to piaget, preschool aged children are in the preoperational stage of cognitive development. Preoperational thinking: children are thinking symbolically and using language to express their thoughts. Children are not yet able to think logically and operationally. No longer in the sensorimotor stage, because they have developed symbolic thought. Symbolic thought: an object or word can stand for something out of sight or imagined. Example: a banana is a phone; carpet is lava: language is the best example of symbolic thought our words are essentially symbols for objects.

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