FMST 210 Midterm: FMST210 MT2 STUDY GUIDE - UBC INTRO TO FAMILY STUDIES EXAM REVIEW
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Jean piaget: swiss psychologist, super influential, theory of stages of cognitive development, naturalistic observations, psychometrics, and psychiatric clinical examination, difficult relationship with his own children. Basic principles: development is a universal process, children are scientists, naturally curious, make sense of their world, construct own understanding, assimilation, new experiences incorporated into existing theories. Dog licking face: accommodation, theories are modified based on experience. Sucking, grasping and looking: primary circular rxns, 1-4 months, accidentally produces a pleasing event and can"t recreate it, secondary circular rxns, 4-8 months, repeated actions that involve an object, eg. Mobile: intentional behaviour, 8-12 months, means are distinct from an end, eg. Father puts hand on toy: tertiary circular rxns, 12 - 18 months, repeats old actions w new objects, different outcomes w different objects, eg. Shaking objects: symbols, 18 months - 2 years, capacity to use symbols, eg. Piaget"s 3 mountain problem: centration, narrow focused thought on tunnel vision, conservation task.
