HDFS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Cognitive Development, Object Permanence, Phase Transition

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Human Development and Family Studies
• Course: HDFS201
• Professor: Robin Palkovitz

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Objects don"t just disintegrate so i"ll look under the 2nd barrier, oh there it is! I saw the hand go in there but i didn"t see the object go in, i can reconstruct an invisible displacement > if i didn"t see it, Conservation of liquids - they think the volume is different in two different dimensional cups; because of centration. You didn"t add any or take any away : reversible thinking - preoperational thinkers don"t have this yet; requires kinetic imagery. Likely to use formal operations in a field of expertise. ), initiative) > piaget theory is non-comprehensive because it doesn"t include these other things that might be good explanations. Transitions to inner speech (to self) - we call it thought; language goes through 3 phase. Guides thoughts and behaviors transition (social, private, inner) to become your thinking; language shapes your thinking.