CPSY 4343 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Recapitulation Theory, Metatheory, Empiricism
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Piaget"s background: training: biology, philosophy of science, motive: ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny (development of the individual parallels the development of the species, era: 1920"s. Binet: concern: order, style: conservative and replicable, perspective: traditional, empiricist (experiences necessary to develop abilities), Stage 4 = x+1+1+1: qualitative differences between the stages. The four stages (tasks, not age, are what determines stage: 1) sensorimotor stage (0-18/24 months) Object permanence: the belief that objects continue to exist despite one"s inability to perceive them, content at the boundary between substages 3 and 4. Infants who fail object permanence task are in substage. Infants who pass object permanence and fail a-not-b (or perseverative) are in substage 4: 2) pre-operational stage (2-7 years) Stage of the have-nots : 3) concrete operations (7-11 years, 4) formal operations (11-adulthood, functional invariants: mechanisms responsible for changes from one stage to the next. Assimilation: the way incoming information is transformed so that it fits with current internal organizations.
