PSYC 313 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Phycology, 18 Months
24 Jul 2018
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Chapter 7 - conceptual development: children divide objects into three categories, inanimate objects, people, other animal, their perceptual development influences the concepts they form and vice versa. Conceptual development: general ideas used to group together objects, events, qualities, or abstractions that are similar, helps people make sense of the world. Dividing objects into groups: concept groups, characteristics, objects that are not alive, people. Infants (3-4 months): use appearances to group objects together (i. e. cats vs. dogs: perceptual organization: the grouping together of objects that have similar appearances, toddlers (24 months): use overall shape or function, preschoolers (3-4 years) Categorization of objects beyond infancy: with age, children grasp relations among categories, category hierarchies include three levels, subordinate level - the most specific level within a category hierarchy, such as. Na ve phycology - a common senses level of understanding of other people and oneself.
