PSYC 307 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Object Permanence
7 Mar 2017
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If you change the way you test things, babies can do things a lot earlier than piaget suggested: much more incremental than piaget suggested. Suggest fairly rapid change and changes in a lot of things all occurring at the same time unity of stages: always occur in the same sequence = invariant. Challenged a lot of ways we thought then about cognitive development: we learn things a little bit at a time, to know something is to act on it (physically or cognitively) Current levels of development influence what we take in: people at different levels of development see things differently. Schemes: how the child adapts to the environment, organization of action that can be generalized by repetition to a variety of similar problems, grasping example, assimilation. Research: test construction, major advancement, very big deal, often used his own observations to come up with ways to test them, a-not-b experiment. Stage sequence: object permanence, shows up way sooner, a-not-b tasks.
