PSYCH-190 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dual Representation, Object Permanence, Egocentrism
9 Sep 2020
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Cognitive development: piagetian, core knowledge, and vygotskian perspectives. In piaget"s theory, two processes account for the change from birth to adulthood: adaptation and organization. Adaptation: building schemes through direct interaction with the environment. Organization: once children form new schemes, they rearrange them, linking them with other schemes to create a strongly interconnected cognitive system. Explore the world through senses and movement. Object permanence knowing that an object is still there when it is hidden. Infants look longer at a wide variety of unexpected events involving hidden objects. Make-believe play children can imagine objects and events without any support from the real world. Play becomes less self centered; direct play to other people. Benefits: more socially competent and strengthen mental abilities. Dual representation: viewing a symbolic object as both an object in its own right and a symbol. Piaget thought that young children are not capable of operations mental representations of actions that obey logical rules.
