PSYC2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Animism, Egocentrism, Hypothesis

• School: Memorial University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC2010
• Professor: Michele Mercer

Document Summary

The transition from preoperational to concrete operational thought. Horizonal decalage: conservation does not develop simultaneously for all properties of materials. Number before mass before weight before volume. Cannot perform mental operations rigid, illogical thinking. Achievements: logical and flexible thinking mental operations, less egocentric, learn class inclusion, seriation, beginning conservation, spatial reasoning, directions, maps. Horizontal decalage: master concrete operational tasks gradually, operations work best with objects that are concrete, problems with abstract ideas. Hypothetico-deductive reasoning: deducing hypotheses from a general theory. I(cid:374) early adoles(cid:272)e(cid:374)(cid:272)e, (cid:272)hildre(cid:374)"s thoughts are (cid:374)o lo(cid:374)ger applied to the (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)rete: not limited to tangible facts or object. Hypothetico-deductive reasoning: the benchmark of formal operations, they can generate hypotheses, can think solely on the basis of symbols. Thinking like a scientist: can think inductively, go from specific observations to broad generalizations, hypotheses are generated, then systematically tested. Piaget"s pe(cid:374)dulu(cid:373) pro(cid:271)le(cid:373) which factors are responsi(cid:271)le for the pe(cid:374)dulu(cid:373)"s rate of oscillation (speed the pendulum swings)