PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Jean Piaget, Mary Ainsworth, Egocentrism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Benjamin Giguere

Document Summary

Psych 1000 - lecture 7 - developmental psychology. What does maturation mean in this context: biologically-driven growth and development enabling a sequence of predictable cognitive (aka mental processes) and behavioural changes, experience (nurture) can adjust the timing, but maturation (nature) sets the sequence. Maturation in infancy: mainly observable in, brain development, motor development. What is cognitive development: cognition refers to mental activities that help us function, including, figuring out the world works, developing models and concepts, problem solving, storing and retrieving knowledge, understanding and using knowledge. Stranger anxiety: pre operational: repressing things with words and images, using intuitive rather than logical reasoning, about 2 to 6-7 years old, 1. pretend to play, 2. egocentrism, moving beyond egocentrism to develop a theory of mind : Reassessment of piaget"s cognitive development theory: development is a continuous process, children show some mental abilities and operations at an earlier age than piaget thought, formal logic is smaller part of cognition than piaget believed.