PSY 3620 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Deductive Reasoning, Personal Fable, Logical Reasoning
1 Oct 2016
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Chapter 5 cognitive development: improvements in thinking, reasoning, and decision making. Learning is related to the mastery of sensory-motor sequences. Thinking occurs as a stimulus-response connection with the physical world. Children begin dealing with their world by learning and manipulating symbols, as well as through motor activity and direct interactions with the environment. Transductive reasoning occurs as the child proceeds from particular to particular, without generalization. Preoperational thinking is egocentric; children have difficulty understanding why someone else cannot see something in the same way they do. Syncretism occurs, in which children try to link ideas that are not always related. From about age 7 to about age 11 or 12. Children show a greater capacity for logical reasoning, although at a very concrete level. They are able to arrange objects in hierarchical classifications and they comprehend class inclusion relationships. This is the inclusion of objects in different levels of the hierarchy at the same time.
