PSY BEH 110D Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Steak Sauce, Egocentrism, Teddy Bear
8 Sep 2016
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Consider developments such as pretend play, language, and memory. Animism - lifelike qualities to things that are not alive. Centration - concentrate on irrelevant details of problems. Egocentrism - focus on themselves over and above others. Hard time understanding that changes in one dimensions can compensate changes in another dimension. Criti(cid:272)al ele(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts re(cid:373)ai(cid:374) u(cid:374)(cid:272)ha(cid:374)ged, (cid:271)ut they do(cid:374)"t u(cid:374)dersta(cid:374)d that. Naughty teddy bear makes kids more accurate, maybe because they witnessed another character messing up the coins. It"s odd to ask the child again and again if there are the same number of coins. Children get the second question wrong because you are asking the same question over again. If they had gotten the question wrong the first time, then maybe that"s why they"re asking again. Children shown paper mache mountain, and are asked to report what they see, and report.
