PS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cognitive Test, Metacognition, Moral Development
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Children are not adults in miniature: thinking changes qualitatively, natural-born scientist, actively explore ad seek to understand the world. Schemas are modified to create equilibrium between environment and understand. Assimilation: new experiences incorporated into existing schemas. Accommodation: new experiences cause existing schemas to change, new information isn"t being fitted in, the child changes their, add on to schema, taken psychology in high-school, after taking university course the information schema changes. Understand world through sensory experiences/physical interactions with objects. Object permanence: understanding that objects continue to exist even when they can no longer be seen. World represented symbolically through words and mental images. Symbolic thinking enables pretend play: creative play -> tea parties and house. Easily perform basic mental operations involving tangible problems and situations. Often have difficulty with problems that require abstract reasoning: manipulate (like 10x12) but they cant reason a hypothetical situation. Can think logically about concrete and abstract problems.
