PSYC 1100 Lecture 27: How the Mind Develops

• School: UConn
• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Course: PSYC 1100
• Professor: Sumarga Suanda

Document Summary

Monday 12/3: optional q & a (prep for final and quiz) Material: language, cognition, intelligence +behavioral genetics, development. Active learners (children are constructing and testing theories of the world) Domain general process (development changes cross cut domains) Object permanence: knowledge that object exist even when they are not visible. At this stage, infants didn"t know something existed unless it was in front of them. Once they understand that objects exist even when the baby can"t see it, they pass this stage. Conservation: the notion that quantitative properties of an object (number, volume) are invariant despite changes in the object"s appearance. Show a child two identical beakers of water, pour one into a tall glass, the child will say that the taller cup has more. Go from least abstract to most abstract. There are some general patterns, but development is much more complicated. Infants skip stages, some perform them out of sequence, it is not an on and off switch.