PSY 457LEC Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Object Permanence, Cognitive Development, Problem Solving
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Processes by which we get to know ourselves and the outside world. Observing children, he proposed a sequence consisting of normal development that all normal children follow. External stimulation, based around what the is done or given to the child, (thinking is doing). The idea that objects do not cease to exist when they are out of sight. Baby looks at visual stimuli and turns head towards noise. Tracking with eyes and staring at place where object has disappeared but will not search for the object. Grasps and manipulates objects as well as anticipating the future position of object (object permanence). Searches for hidden object but in the last place the found it not the last place they saw it (a not b effect). Will search in the last place they saw the object. A schema is a mental representation or set of rules that defines a particular behaviour category.
