PY 352 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Jean Piaget, Object Permanence, Cognitive Development
22 May 2018
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Cognitive Development
1. Jean Piaget
1. Worked for Albert Binet, creator of the first intelligence test
1. noticed that children of the same age gave similar answers
1. hypothesis: they think in similar ways which differ from the ways
of adults
2. led to theory of cognitive development
2. Theory of cognitive development
1. children view the world through schemata
1. cognitive rules we use to interpret the world
2. assimilation
1. we incorporate our experiences into this existing schemata
3. when info violates our schemata, we accommodate and change our
schemata
3. Four stages of thinking
1. sensorimotor stage
1. birth- 2 years
2. we explore the world through our senses
3. behavior is governed by reflexes until we develop our
first cognitive schemata
4. major challenge- develop object permanence (objects continue
to exist even when out of our sensory range)
2. preoperational stage
1. 2 years- 7 years
2. object permanence prepares us to use symbols to represent real
world objects
3. → the beginning of language
4. we speak our first words
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