PSY10000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Object Permanence, Psy, Inside Out Music
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Lecture #34: piaget"s theory, has an adaptive function mediated by the processes of acclimation and assimilation, problem: How do you talk about the qualitative process: answer: The switch between stages is caused by the process of equilibration. There is a reset of accommodation and assimilation, which re- equilibrates into the next stage: 4 stages: Develop first mental representations: egocentric perspective the infants think that the way they see the world is the way that everybody sees it. Representation without understanding its underlying nature (very literal) They get fixed on the superficial characteristics. Mental representations that abstract the essential attributes of reality. Mental operations that abstract essential attributes of reality. Provided theory for how children think and how their thinking develops. Gives the argument that: development is an inside-out process: limitations: Socialization: attachment: emotional bond between caregiver and infant. Each drive a psychosocial stage with a crisis to be solved.