PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Jean Piaget, Object Permanence, Egocentrism
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Importance of responsive world large part of cognition. Seems to aid with reacting appropriately with environment. Children at a young age can do abstract reasoning if presented right. Birth of studies and noticed something about children. Children consistently doing things that adults don"t. Children constantly forming categories of knowledge (what piaget thought) Draw lines based on notion of assimilation and accommodation. Have a sense of how to approach. Meeting a new thing that seems to belong in a category. Treat the new thing as though it belongs in that category. Use assumptions based on category onto new thing. If it goes well and the reward contingencies are the same labels the new thing as a cat. If it goes badly and the reward contingencies are not the same. Accommodates new information by creating a different category leads to creation of stigmatas. First priority in life learning about world through senses. Getting mobile and muscle in body working right.
