PSYC 2P12 Lecture Notes - Egocentrism, Teddy Bear, Jean Piaget
5 Apr 2013
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Growth influences cognitive and social development: poverty affecting development, nutrition and long term impacts. Costs of obesity: early 1990s, less than 5% of children would be considered overweight; currently, ~15% are overweight, social costs in school, self efficacy. Most influence theorist in field of cognitive development. Based many of his ideas on what he observed in his own children. 4 stages of development; two taking place in childhood. Defined largely by what children cannot do. Difficultly mentally manipulating items they see in the real world: conservation tasks. Given two things that are identical, then right in front of you, do a transformation (i. e. spread out pennies, switch glasses) Reversing the change to show the original format; undoing the transformation (i. e. pouring the water back into the shorter glass, or moving the pennies closer together: centration. Centered on one dimension (a short, fat glass vs. a tall, skinny glass, or moving pennies closer and further apart)
