Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bsc Young Boys, Anna Freud, Penis Envy

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Terry Biggs

Document Summary

Jean piaget and cogniive development observed own children. 4 stages of cogniive development found that kids don"t think the same way as adults. Note: age range approximate; stages are not completely independent: sensory-motor intelligence (0-2 yrs, preoperaional (2-7, period of concrete operaions (7-11, period of formal operaions (11+) Sensory-motor intelligence nothing exists apart from child"s own percepions and motor rxns no self concept look at organizaion of sensory and motor rxns (piaget schema (your organizaional strategies)) At birth variety of relexes at irst, schemas operate in isolaion coordinaion of aciviies not present unil 5 months (both hands 7 months) pseudoimitaion present. Child can imitate, but only if acions just produced. None of this informaion is stored importance of sensory (visual) feedback ex. sick out tongue rough acquisiion by 11-12 months. Eicient imitaion object permanence representaional thought external world exists, represented by some symbol.