APSY-UE 20 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Object Permanence, Hans Moravec, Problem Solving

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Chapter 5, #18: out of sight, but not out of mind. Children simply cannot demonstrate certain thinking and reasoning abilities until they reach an appropriate stage of cognitive development, no matter how much learning they may have experienced. Jean piaget: influential figure in the history of psychology, responsible for the conceptualization of cognitive development, formed the foundation for most subsequent investigations in the area of the formation of the intellect. Children at similar ages appeared to be making the same mistakes, used similar reasoning strategies to reach similar answers. Theorized that older children had not just learned more than the younger ones but were thinking differently about the problems. All knowledge is acquired through senses and movement (such as looking. Thinking is at the same speed as physical movement. Thinking separates from movement and increases greatly in speed. All objects have thoughts and feelings (animism) Egocentric thinking (unable to see world from others" pov develops)

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