PSYCH 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter V: Developmental Psychology, Object Permanence, 18 Months
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Out of sight, but not out of mind, pp. Many developmental psychologists believe that much more is involved in acquiring intellectual abilities than simple learning. The prevailing view about intellectual development is that it is a process of maturation, much like physical development, that occurs in a predictable fashion from birth through adulthood. Psychology owes its understanding of this conceptualization of cognitive development in large part to the work of swiss psychologist jean piaget (1896 - Piaget began to detect some interesting patterns in the answers given by children at various ages to the questions on the test. Children of similar ages appeared to be making the same mistakesusing similar reasoning strategies to reach similar answers. Instead of the usual rigid, standardized intelligence tests, he proposed an interview technique that allowed the child"s answers to influence the direction of the questioning. He would be able to explore the processes underlying the child"s reasoning.
