01:830:331 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Magical Thinking, Irreversible Process, Social Cognition
21 Nov 2016
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Sensorimotor stage: infants learn about the world via their sense and motor activity. Preoperational stage: expansion in the use of symbolic thought: 2-7 years old. Clearly illustrated with the advent of language. Advances in symbolic thought are accompanied by a growing understanding of causality, identities, categorization and number. Calling upon something based on the concept of memory, no sensory cue necessary to think about something. Having symbols for things helps children remember and think about them without having them physically present. Ex: deferred imitation requires a kept mental representation of an obserbed action. Ex: pretend play: kids use an object to represent something else objects become symbols for other objects (remote - telephone) Isnt until 3 y/o that kids grasp the relationship between pictures and the larger/smaller objects they represent. Piaget: preoperational kids cannot reason logically about cause and effect. They instead use transduction: mentally link 2 events whether or not there is a logically causal relationship.
