PSY-0001 Lecture Notes - Egocentrism, Habituation
7 Mar 2014
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Sensorimotor (~0 2: acquire information about the world through their senses and motor skills, according to piaget, one important cognitive concept developed during this stage is object permanence, the understanding that an object continues to exist even when it cannot be seen. Preoperational (~2 7: children think symbolically about objects, but they reason based on intuition and superficial appearance rather than logic, have no understanding of the law of conservation of quantity: that is, even if a substance"s appearance changes, its quantity may remain unchanged (ex. Animal crackers: difficulty seeing that actions are reversible, focus on the end states rather than the transformation process, focus on one dimension rather than multiple, key cognitive limitations of the preoperational period, centration: this limitation occurs when a preschooler cannot think about more than one detail of a problem solving task at a time, egocentrism: this is the tendency for preoperational thinkers to view the world through their own experiences.
