PSY210H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Psychopathology, Flowchart, Long-Term Memory
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Main criticisms of piaget"s ideas about concrete operational stage he underestimates child"s perspective" taking ability in the preoperational and sensory motor stages. Piaget"s mountain tasks uses familiar toys rather than the mountain as landmarks, three years olds can take on the doll"s perspective. Two year-olds will turn a picture and show it to you while talking about it to you demonstrates that they realize your perspective is different from theirs. 18-month-olds can point to an item the adult isn"t looking at to draw the adult"s attention to it also requires sense of difference between baby"s perspective and adult"s. 18-month-olds also understand people"s desires are different goldfish and broccoli. 4 year-olds use simpler speech when talking to a two year old as opposed to another 4 year-old shows understanding of different perspective. Even 2-year-olds talk to infant siblings differently than adults understand that their perspective, infant perspective, and adult perspectives are different.