PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Lev Vygotsky, Cultural-Historical Psychology, Mirror Test

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jill L Atkinson

Document Summary

Can make social comparisons: adolescence: become concerned with how they are perceived by others. Intersubjectivity: ability to share a focus of attention with others. Infant habituation: a given stimulus is presented repeatedly; the child learns not to respond to an unimportant event that occurs repeatedly: piaget: active interaction with environment for development. Humans" intellectual or reasoning abilities develop through a series of four stages: sensorimotor stage: 0-2 years of age. Children build an understanding of their environment primarily through their sensory and motor abilities. Many reflexes are replaced by voluntary movement: preoperational stage: 2-6 years of age. Substantial cognitive development, primarily in symbolic representation and the beginning of logical reasoning. Children in this stage are egocentric (often cannot understand that others have knowledge of beliefs different from their own: concrete operational stage: age 7-11. Children will master the conservation problems that they could not solve during the preoperational stage. Problems requiring considering more than one variable becomes less challenging.