PSYC 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Negroid, Caucasian Race, Jean Piaget
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Ethnicity (many groups, distinguished by unique customs, language, and common. Problem-solving (critical thinking skills, ones sense of reality) Motivation (in uence construction of reality, fully understand beliefs and behaviors) Sociocultural (age, gender, race, and ethnicity, knowledge and motivation) Varied (contingent on ones language development and experience) Formal thought (one common outcome, hypothetical deductive reasoning leading to abstract formal thought. Named without criteria (no de ning characteristics given) Classes of things (named) - set of criteria it belongs to, xed. Communicative speech (language exchanged between 2 or more persons) Egocenetric speech (one talking to ones self about a particular issue) Inner speech (thought, use of symbols to abstractly describe experiences. Sca olding: study scienti c concepts in advance of one"s love of mastery. Verbal commentary (state what was done, how, and why. Used repeatedly to attain goals and to solve problems. Causality (relates to roles of leading and following) One acquires sensory input through sensory systems.
