PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Working Memory, Impulsivity, Phonemic Awareness
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Talked about objects: reviewed piagetian idea that children construct object concept from sensori- motor primitives. Although he claimed he was not an empiricist because he thought learning was not associative, instead it was much more sophisticated (children are little scientists that make and test hypotheses through action. Maintained that learning was result of reasoning, which is nativist: piaget"s ideas are called a constructivist approach- representations are constructed on basis of a theory developed to explain the world. Around 8 months- they begin to search for hidden objects, but make a-not- B error: children search at a to find an object because that is where it has previously been found, even if it is obvious that it is at location b. Piaget"s idea- objects are represented as a relationship between sensation and action- they are not yet totally abstract and different from one"s self.
