PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Ejaculation, Menarche, Duct Tape

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Children are not simply miniature versions of adults. They have an innate motivation to learn about the world. Assimilation: use existing schema to interpret new situation (will fit right into existing schema) Accommodation: encounter new situation, change existing schema in order to incorporate new information. According to piaget, we have 4 stages of cognitive development. Use senses and motor skills to learn about and discover the world. According to piaget, children are not capable of abstract thinking. Major achievement: object permanence (object continues to exist, even if you cannot perceive it). Without object permanence, out of sight is out of mind. At some point in time, we didn"t have object permanence (however, it develops earlier than piaget anticipated) Seriously underestimated babies" abstract thoughts (babies had knowledge of numbers, basic laws of physics) Egocentrism: think and believe there is only their own perspective. Do not understand that other people think and feel differently)