PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Object Permanence, Ethology, Almost Surely

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Professor Kim

Document Summary

9/26/17: concrete operational stage (7-11 years, more logical, flexible, organized cognition, mastery of spatial operations, difficulties with abstract reasoning, formal operations stage (11 years +, abstract and scientific reasoning, internal reflection. Video: the little boy knows that a feather is soft and can"t hypothetically think of a situation where a feather can break a glass. The older girl who was in formal operations stage, said that the glass did break since the sentence stated it and she could think more scientifically. Criticisms of piaget"s theory: more continuous than stage-like. I(cid:374)fa(cid:374)t has o(cid:271)je(cid:272)t per(cid:373)a(cid:374)e(cid:374)(cid:272)e, (cid:271)ut does(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) ho(cid:449) to sear(cid:272)h: need non-search test of object permanence, violation of expectation method. Violation-of-expectation method: show infants 2 events, possible event, consistent with object permanence. However, when the screen covers the box again, those who lack object permanence think it is still possible because it is covered: results, both 8 and 6. 5 month olds look longer at impossible event than possible event.