Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Object Permanence, Egocentrism, Jean Piaget

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Agenda: piaget"s theory, stages of development, support. What influences development: nature vs. nurture, stage vs. Sensory motor intelligence (0 2 years: 2. Period of concrete operations (7 11 years: 4. Sensory motor stage: nothing exists apart from child"s own perceptions and motor reactions, no self-concept, look at organization of sensory and motor reactions (piaget -> schema) At birth variety of reflexes: at first, schemas operate in isolation, coordination of activities not present until 5 months (both hands 7 months, pseudoimitation present. Child can imitate, but only if actions just produced, cannot code in, cannot perform after time has elapsed. 18 24 months: efficient imitation, representational thought. Represented by some symbol: object permanence. Someone who doesn"t show object permanence is stuck on the sensory-motor stage. Someone who does, moved beyond sensory-motor stage. Preoperational stage: conceptual system of higher order schemas, rules not fully acquired until age 7.