PSY 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Active Child, Genetic Epistemology, Object Permanence

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 302
• Professor: Dana Williams

Document Summary

Piaget stages of cognitive development discontinuity: qualitative change, broad applicability, brief transitions. Invariant sequence: what are piaget"s stages of cognitive development. Sensorimotor (birth to 2: three accomplishments are planful problem solving, the development of imitation, and the understanding of object permanence, reflex activity (birth to 1 month) Innate reflexes: egocentric, uncoordinated movements, assimilation and accommodation are occurring, assimilation: can suck on nipple and then on blanket, accommodation: learns you can"t suck on everything. 4-8 months, repetitive acts centered on objects body in the environments. 8-12 months, beginning of object permanence but a but not b error (they don"t have a inhibitory response) what will happen. 12-18 months, begins to experiment to see: concrete operational (7-11) operations on concrete things; nothing abstract. The ability behind all this is the ability to have representational thought. Pre-operational stage (2-7: emergence of symbolic thought, language. Pretend play (learn about adult roles, learn to cooperatively play, learn about feelings that bother you)