PSYC 2250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: Object Permanence, Egocentrism

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2250
• Professor: Steven Hladkyj

Document Summary

1-4 months reflexes are first modified by experience. 8 months reach a watershed; the onset of deliberate, intentional. 4-8 months paying more attention to objects behavior. Object permanence understanding independently that objects exist. Objects are ephemeral existing when in sight and no longer exist when out of sight. Infants do not have a full understanding of object permanence until about 18 months. 18 months most infants have begun to talk and gesture, evidence of the emerging capacity to use symbols begin to anticipate the consequences of actions mentally instead of having to perform them. 2 7 years olds marked by child"s use of symbol to represent objects and events typically believe that others see the world, both literally and figuratively. Egocentrism refers to young children"s difficulty in seeing the world from another"s point of view. Animism sometimes credit inanimate objects with life and lifelike properties. Centration narrowly focused thought tat characterizes preoperational youngsters.