Psychology 2035A/B Lecture Notes - Jean Piaget, Object Permanence, Animism
15 Dec 2013
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Background: trained as a biologist (expert on mollusks); worked part-time with kids at binet institute (developing new iq test) stanford binet iq test. Kids" mistakes on reasoning tasks revealed how cognitive abilities to develop. Spent next 60 years of his life interacting with children. Four stages: sensorimotor stage (age 0-2 years) Infants can"t represent objects in thought (can only respond to what they see, hear, touch what they experience with their senses) Lacks an understanding of object permanence (objects continue to exist even when they cant be seen) peek-a-boo: preoperational stage (age 2-7) Use language (representational thought) words represent things/objects. Understanding of concepts is weak (abstract idea about what a group of objects has in common) (ex. Because that"s my favourite colour: assume other people see world as they do (leave out important background info) Lack firm grasp of cause-effect relations (e. g. , will a bike work if you remove the chain?: also assume that effect is cause .
