Psychology 2035A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Intelligence Quotient, Social Contract, Animism

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

Document Summary

Jean piaget: background: trained as a biologist (expert on mollusks); worked part-time with kids at. Binet institute (developing new iq test: kids" mistakes on reasons tasks revealed hot cognitive abilities develop. Rely on one property to define concepts. Engage in animistic thinking (if an object moves, it must be alive: thinking tends to be egocentric (perceive world in terms of their own perspective) Why does the sun shine? because it"s my favourite colour . Assume other people see the world as they do (leave out important background info: lack firm grasp of cause-effect relations (e. g. will a bike work if you remove the chain?, also assume that effect is cause e. g. Because he broke his arm: don"t understand logical rules (or logical operations ) Properties of an object are conserved even if you change the shape of the object: conservation of liquid, substance. Don"t understand that if 2+3=5 then 3+2 must also equal 5.