PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mary Ainsworth, Abstract Logic, 6 Years

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

Document Summary

Children who can roll over are less susceptible to infant death syndrome. Early psychologist who started his work in the early 1900s and was still active in the 1950s. Rather than doing experiments, piaget developed his theory by actually playing with children. Based on what they did, he would design theories about how they develop. Proposed that there were stages of development, which is one of the controversial aspects of his theory. A way to think about the world, to understand the world. Piaget argued that in each of the stages there is one type of way of thinking about the world that is the dominate schema; the way to think about the world at that point in time. When you have schemas, two different processes can happen. Happens within a stage, which means that you add more information to your schema. You assimilate information to your schema, the way you think about the world.