PSY 1012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 40: Egocentrism, Peekaboo, Object Permanence
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>> primary method was to ask children to solve problems and to question them about the reasoning behind their solutions. >> discovered that children think in radically different ways than adults. >> proposed that development occurs in a series of stages differing in how the world is understood sensorimotor stage. >> info is gained through the senses and motor actions. >> child perceives and manipulates, but does not reason. >> the understanding that objects exist independent of one"s actions or perceptions of them. >> before 6 months infants act as if objects removed from sight cease to exist. - ex: can be surprised by disappearance/reappearance (peek-a-boo) preoperational stage. >> can"t take another person"s point of view conservation. >> properties such as mass, volume, and number remain constant despite changes in appearance concrete operational stage. >> understanding of mental operations leading to increasingly logical thought. >> inability to reason abstractly or hypothetically formal operational stage.
