PSYCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Egocentrism, Object Permanence, Teddy Bear

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Psychology & Brain Sciences
• Course: PSYCH 100
• Professor: Tammy Rahhal

Document Summary

Move from stage to stage at certain ages. Order is unchanging and age is usually about the same. Children are active thinkers who try to construct more accurate advanced understanding of the world. Schema- knowledge structures about all kinds of things, storing the knowledge in these schemas. Stage where children learn relationships between actions and the real world (cause and effect) Example: children tend to repeatedly drop food from high chair and giggle because they are understanding for the first time that when they drop something, it goes to the floor. Object permanence- objects still exist when they disappear. Example: a child who doesn"t understand object permanence would think that their favorite teddy bear is gone if you simply cover it with a blanket to hide it. Attachment -stranger anxiety, becoming attached to objects like favorite blanket or stuffed animals. Acquire ability to form mental images of objects and events and can represent the world with words language develops.