PSY 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Object Permanence, Lev Vygotsky, Animism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 302
• Professor: Paul Brunet

Document Summary

Important to remember that piaget didn"t study adults. Schemes/schemas: template on how to behave or think in a situation in response to a stimuli. Assimilation: interpreting new information or new experiences based on your current schemas. Accommodation: when a scheme is modified or created to interpret new information creating a new schema. Piaget"s stages: sensorimotor (birth until 2 years, sensory and motor including reflexes, hand-eye coordination, start problem solving, develop object permanence. Thumb sucking: secondary circular reactions: 4-8 months, repeating a behaviour that is interesting or enjoyable for the sake of enjoyment; focusing on interactions with the infants" environment. Lev vygotsky: focuses on the social interaction and cultural aspect of development, focuses more on the nurture side and cross-generational interactions (parents and children) Elementary vs. higher mental functions: nature: elementary mental functions: innate cognitive ability (e. g. memory, nurture: higher mental functions: learned via social interactions/culture (e. g. logical and abstract thinking)