PSYCH 2410 Lecture Notes - Egocentrism, Inductive Reasoning
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Conceptual development cont : space, egocentrism, navigation, gender differences, number early knowledge, numerical discrimination, ordinal knowledge, early calculation, counting principles. Concepts and categories are fundamental to cognition: they provide for, organized thought, inductive reasoning, concepts make thinking efficient. Development: representing where (as opposed to what , people, like other animals, code space relative to themselves and to the external environment. Piaget: before 2-years of age, only egocentric representation. Egocentric vs. allocentric debate: varied testing context using this basic paradigm, step 1: train infant to turn and look at one window, step 2: rotate infant 180 . If they turn and look at same window as before allocentric: reference to something external to self. If the turn the same way they were, looking at opposite window now egocentric. How do they overcome egocentrism without landmarks: related to self-locomotion, if 10-month-old moves himself to other side, more likely to find object, continuously updating information when you move yourself through environment.
