PSYC 355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Puzzle Video Game, Solidity, Strong Gravity

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 355
• Professor: Valerie Ann Kuhlmeier

Document Summary

Object physics: object permanence, solidity and support, gravity and solidity. Causality can be construed at a very general level in terms of the construction of conceptual descriptions that capture regularities in the displacements of objects and their interactions with other objects. : object permanence. Ability to reason about the location and movements of objects that are not directly visible. 1 & 2: don"t search for objects that have gone out of sight - out of sight out of mind. 5& 6: track possible movements of hidden objects (invisible displacement) the most advanced stage. An inferential step has to occur to find the hidden object: a lot of what piaget said was right (about the ages, white circle: initial location of the object, dark circle: where the object ends up. Are these animals successful at tracking these objects: great apes yes. Monkeys are different from great apes: monkeys have tails, great apes don"t have tails.