PSYC 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Jean Piaget, Egocentrism, Mary Ainsworth
Depth of Development;
Really important and dense area in psychology because every ability you’ve had to develop and
continue to develop in the course of your lifespan!
Important life events: Biological & Non-biological
➢ Cognitive Development
o Biological
o Strategies (hints and short-cuts)
o Brain development (what happens at what times in our life)
Jean Piaget
- MOST influential theory of cognitive development.
- Based on children being explorers of their environment.
▪ Schemas are collections of ideas and notions representing units of
understanding.
• i.e. SpongeBob Memory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZQJhvs4amQ
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utwJ2c_zCaQ
▪ Assimilation is the process of interpreting NEW information in light of old
ideas (schemas.)
• Learn new information with out changing how you think of the
object or class of objects.
▪ Accommodation is the process modifying old ideas (schemas) to fit new
situations.
• A new object is presented, and you have to change your previous
thought about it.
Jean Piaget’s 4 Stages of Cognitive Development: “How were they learning?”
Sensorimotor: (birth-2 years)
Basic motor abilities and reflexes.
(Reaching, crawling, sucking…)
Biggest obstacle is “Object Permeance”
which is the realization that an object
continues to exist even if it can’t be seen.
Preoperational: (2-7 years)
Language!
(Make believe play emerges and question
asking.)
Biggest obstacles are “Centration” which is
the ability to focus on a single aspect of a
situation. “Irreversibility” which means
they’re unable to mentally ‘undo’ an action.
“Focus on appearance” which means that
things look a certain way has to be that way.
“Egocentrism” is the failure to understand the
world appears differently to everyone.
- Conservation is the logical reasoning
that some physical characteristics stay
the same even when their outward
appearance changes.
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Document Summary
Really important and dense area in psychology because every ability you"ve had to develop and continue to develop in the course of your lifespan! Cognitive development: biological, strategies (hints and short-cuts, brain development (what happens at what times in our life) Jean piaget"s 4 stages of cognitive development: how were they learning? thought about it. Basic motor abilities and reflexes. (reaching, crawling, sucking ) Biggest obstacle is object permeance which is the realization that an object continues to exist even if it can"t be seen. Language! (make believe play emerges and question asking. ) Biggest obstacles are centration which is the ability to focus on a single aspect of a situation. Irreversibility which means they"re unable to mentally undo" an action. Focus on appearance which means that things look a certain way has to be that way. Egocentrism is the failure to understand the world appears differently to everyone.
