Psychology 2035A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Object Permanence, Intelligence Quotient, Peekaboo
3 Dec 2013
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Background: trained as a biologist (expert on mollusks) worked part-time with kids at binet institute (developing new iq test) Interested in kid"s mistakes on reasoning tasks revealed how cognitive abilities develop. Over the next decade, he developed tests, watched kids plays and this was how he came up with the. If you cover up a toy for an 8-month-old infant, they will stop looking for it because they lack object permanence. If a has 4 legs and b has 4 legs, then a must be b because they have the same property. They leave out important background info: eg. Kid says what"s this! assumes that you know what they"re talking about: lack firm grasp of cause-effect relations, eg. Bike won"t work if you remove the chain, kids don"t understand this: also assume that effect is the cause . Because he broke his arm: don"t understand logical rules, or logical operations, eg.
