Psychology 2020A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Object Permanence, Animism, Jean Piaget
5 Dec 2015
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Background: trained as a biologist (expert on mollusks); worked part-time with kids at binet. Part of his job, he administered reasoning tasks to children at different ages; he became interested in cognitive development. He was intrigued by kid"s mistakes on reasoning tasks revealed how cognitive abilities develop. He interacted with children a lot after that. Because he broke his arm: (most imp. ) Don"t understand logical rules (or will a bike work if you remove the chain?) (leave out important background info) Logical operations ) e. g. , conservation: properties of an object are conserved even if you change the shape of the object: conservation of liquid, conservation of substance (play dough, numbers [don"t understand that. The act itself is neither moral nor immoral. The morality of an act depends on the reasoning behind the act. Three levels of moral reasoning (each with two stages) Decisions of right and wrong are based on.
