PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Egocentrism, Negative Feedback, Mirror Test

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

Cogniion: complex, mental processes (thinking, reasoning, planning, memory: jean piaget: childhood development. One of the biggest names in psychology he was a biologist, when he had children he became fascinated with the way they learn and development. Assimilaion: encounter new info which integrates into exising schema (old knowledge helps with new experiences: ex. ) Baby sucking for milk, the mom doesn"t have ime to breasfeed anymore, so she gives the baby a botle it"s assimilaion because the baby knows the sucking moion, so it just has to apply it to the botle. There are 4 stages of cogniive development (according to piaget): they have a ixed sequence you cannot skip a step or change the order, the stages are universal. Object permanence: the person/object coninues to exist because we can see, hear and feel it. Without it, it"s out of sight and out of mind. We do achieve object permanence at that stage but a litle earlier than he noted.