PSYCH-101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Psych, Peekaboo, Lev Vygotsky
11 Sep 2020
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Mind develops through series of universal, irreversible stages from simple reflexes to adult abstract reasoning. Children"s maturing brains build schemas which are used and adjusted through assimilation and accommodation. Sensorimotor stage (birth to nearly 2 years) Tools for thinking and reasoning change with development. Awareness that things continue to exist even when they are not perceived (peek-a-boo) 18-30 months may fail to take the size of an object into account when trying to perform impossible actions with it (ex. Preoperational stage (about 2 to 7 years) Child learns to use language but cannot yet perform the mental operations of concrete logic. Conservation - does not understand the concept of conservation. Children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events. They begin to understand change in form before change in quantity and become able to understand simple math and conservation. Children are no longer limited to concrete reasoning based on actual experience.
