Psychology 2410A/B Lecture 7: Cognitive Development

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2410A/B
• Professor: Lynne Zarbatany

Document Summary

The big achievement at the end of the sensorimotor period was forming mental representations of objects in advance. What they cant do rather than what they can do. No logical operations to operate on mental representations: p(cid:396)eope(cid:396)atio(cid:374)al (cid:373)ea(cid:374)s (cid:862)p(cid:396)elogi(cid:272)al(cid:863) Cant solve abstract or hypothetica problems using logical operations. Piaget uses the pendulum problem (what determines how fast the object swings?) Do (cid:272)hild(cid:396)e(cid:374) fail (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause the(cid:455) la(cid:272)k piaget"s ope(cid:396)atio(cid:374)s o(cid:396) do the(cid:455) fail fo(cid:396) othe(cid:396) (cid:396)easo(cid:374)s? if he failed for some other reason than piaget is wrong. What is the reason for conservation problems. Lack of operations or some other reason. Kids do better when good reasons question is asked twice (i. e. clumsy interviewer) or when there are fewer numbers in the row (maybe counting problem) or wording of question changed (vocab prob) Failure may also be due to attention or memory overload.