PSY312H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Signify, Egocentrism, Object Permanence
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Communicates tangible sense of what children"s thinking is like descriptions just feel right. Addresses topics of interest to various groups such as parents, teachers, philosophers, scientists. Examines development of the concepts of time, space, number basic intellectual acquisitions of humankind. Covers a broad age span and broad variety of achievements at any given age. Children in earlier stages reason differently than those in later. Children"s reasoning on a given problem is similar at a given point in development. Children will move abruptly to the next stage after spending a prolonged amount of time in a single stage. Ability to solve problems however still struggle with highly abstract concepts. At birth piaget believed cognitive system of child was limited to motor reflexes. Piaget thought that children move through the 4 stages in the same specific order. Assimilation, accommodation and equilibration essential for child to progress from stage to stage (according to piaget)
