CHD-2220 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Red Riding, Child Tax Credit, Egocentrism
22 Apr 2016
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Induction- we derive general principles from particular examples: ex: an eight-year-old boy who observes that teachers have favored girls in each of his classes, might induce the general principle that girls are teacher"s pets. Deduction- we use general principles to predict particular outcomes: the same child could use his general principle to deduce that when he enters his next grade, his new teacher will be more likely to favor girls. Piaget believed that preoperational children are incapable of thinking inductively or deductively, instead they use transduction. Children under 8 years of age consistently identified their own view of the doll (egocentrism) If she is then asked if her sister has a sister, she will typically say no Piaget found that young preoperational children showed no understanding of this, while slightly older children understood somewhat but were still thrown off by the superficial appearance of the rows. This is true even when they count items incorrectly.
