PSYC 2450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Object Permanence, Phineas Gage, Animism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2450
• Professor: Karl Hennig

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Review questions: describe the _____(sensori-motor, pre-operational, concrete, formal operations) stage. Describe a task used to test this stage, and how the task assesses the stage: theory of mind. Provide a _______(e. g. , theory of mind, executive functioning) interpretation of the task. In light of this, how shoud teachers teach: vygotskys notion of languages as a tool. Discuss the rationale and results for the gordon (2004) study. Different way we learn: reflex associations (primitive) piaget: active processes of adaptation build on reflexes, trial & error action + reward/punishment, random (skinner) vs. piaget: active goal exploration. 3-4 years old believe the other person sees what they do. Typically, pre-operational children are defined by what tasks they fail (conservation) What they can do is understand symbols. Deloache (2000) dual representations children"s use of scale models . Does the child understand that the model matches the room? (3-4 years) *false belief task (smarties or juice box task) 3 year olds fail/ 4-5 year olds pass.