PSY 2105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Jean Piaget, Educational Toy, Object Permanence
23 Nov 2016
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Piaget was a biologist with strong interests in how children acquire. Piaget argued that the nature of children"s knowledge changes as they develop: genetic epistemology. Used the clinical method of research: asking why kids got things wrong, not right. Published the first paper when he was 10, ba at 19, phd at 22. Sensorimotor period: birth through age 2: thinking is action. Preoperational period: age 2 to 6: thinking is based on appearances. Concrete operations: age 6 to 11: thinking is based on reality. Formal operations: age 12 through adulthood: thinking is based on abstractions. Organized ways of making sense of experience. Schemes reflect an object in the environment and the child"s reaction to that object. For piaget, development is the reorganization of knowledge into more complex schemes. Later move to a mental (thinking) level. We are born with lots of knowledge and the sequence of development is predetermined.
