PSYC 2010U Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Graham Cracker, Prefrontal Cortex, 18 Months
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Problem integrating visual info with their ability to control behavior and plan. Piaget revisited: preoperational stage (2-6 years of age) To reason they must act out possibilities, cannot do this in their head (ex. count on their fingers to add numbers as they cannot do mental math) Centration: tendency to focus on one aspect and exclude all other aspects of the situation, conservation task expected that most children in the preoperational stage will fail this task. Will only commit scale errors for a 1-2-week period. Children are able to engage in symbolic thought but lack true mental operations. Don"t understand that other people may not see exactly what they see. Some children may be able to understand that different people have different. What you see on one side of the table will be different from what you see on the. Started by showing the child 2 full sized graham crackers.
