PSY 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Normative Social Influence, Individualism, Psy
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Focus on cognition - all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing and remembering. => yes infants can think contrary to piaget"s early thinking. Toddlers: too young to perform mental operations, conservation-- quantity the same despite changes in shape. B. egocentrism- -inability to take another"s point of view. Theory of mind: realization that people have minds, begin to infer intentions. 3: no longer think aloud, talk to themselves--helps children control their behavior and emotions and master new skills. Concrete operational stage: 6-7 years of age, change in shape does not mean change in quantity, comprehend mathematical transformations and conservations. Formal operational stage: 8-12, form concrete (experience) to abstract(imagined realities and symbols. If this, then that b: criticisms, the good. Human cognition the world over develops in this manner: the bad. Six stages of moral thinking clustered in three levels: preconventional morality : before age 9, conventional morality: early adolescence. True: mature thinking leads to more moral behavior;
