PSYC-2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Representativeness Heuristic, Availability Heuristic, Butter Knife
16 Aug 2018
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Jean piaget worked administering intelligence tests to children. Interested in children"s reasoning behind wrong answers. Less interested in children"s overall intelligence than he was with how they used their intelligence. Children"s cognitive ability could be broken down into predictable stages. Coordination of sensory input and motor responses; development of object permanence. Development of symbolic thought marked by irreversibility, centration, and egocentrism. Mental operations applied to concrete events; mastery of conversation, hierarchical classi cation. Mental operations applied to abstract ideas; logical systematic thinking. The ages may differ slightly but all children pass through the stages in the same order. Slowly add new experiences to previous experiences. Children learn to coordinate their sensory input with their motor actions. Learning and cognition advance in a very linear fashion. Abstract concept - looking at problems from multiple angles. As a child is developing, the brain is still developing as they"re growing.
