PSYC14H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ethnocentrism, Parenting Styles, Wet Nurse
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8: erikson assumes that we have good stuff and bad stuff at each stage of ego crisis (e. g. , trust. The infant constructs an understanding of the world by coordinating sensory experiences w/ physical action. The child begins to represent the world w/ words and images; increased symbolic thinking. The child can now reason logically about tangible objects and concrete events. The adolescent reasons in more abstract ways; metacognition about hypotheticals. Operational: preoperational stage - playing w/ mud, concrete operational - can think of transformation and reversibility (liq --> solid and solid --> In many cultures, there isnt a lot of thinking of thinking. Judgments about what is right and wrong r based on fear of punishment. Moral conduct produces pleasure, whereas immoral conduct results in unwanted consequences. Conventional level behaviour is good if its approved by so"s. Conventional level existing laws determine what is moral and immoral. Postconventional moral behav is based on indiv rights and underlying social circumstances.
