PSYCH 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Joint Attention, Cultural-Historical Psychology, Object Permanence
3 Feb 2020
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The study of how our minds grow and change over the lifespan, from infancy to old age. Stages of development- actively constructing their understanding, logical errors allow us to see how children make sense of the world. Schemes: organized ways of making sense of experience and information. Sensorimotor stage (birth-2years): obtain info from senses and motor experiences. Cannot obtain new information from past or future. No object permanence, the understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be perceived. Preoperational stage (2-7years): use language to gain information, be aware of objects in their immediate view. Can"t understand law of conservation, centration- focus on single feature. No egocentrism- cannot take other people"s points of view. Concrete operational stage (7-11years): mental manipulation of actual objects. Formal operational stage (11 beyond): can create and test hypothesis, can do abstract and hypothetical operations, concerned about the future. Very young toddlers can understand basic laws of physics (4 months).
