PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Abstraction, Cognitive Development, Konrad Lorenz
27 Apr 2019
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03/18/19: the developing person, spurts of cognitive change are followed by periods of stability, four stages of cognitive development. Sensorimotor stage: 1-2 years, preoperational stage, 3-6 years (preschool age, concrete operational, 7-11, formal operational, about 12 and up, concrete operational, about 6-7 years to 11-12 years of age. Importance of warm contact to infant attachment: human infants also become attached to parents who are soft and warm who rock, feed, and cuddle them, familiarity is another important factor in the development of attachment, konrad lorenz (1937) Imprinting: process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life: when ducklings hatch, the immediately form a bond with the first moving thing they see. It"s usually their mother, but lorenz removed the mother the ducklings saw him as their mother due to imprinting. duck from the scene, so her ducklings saw him first, thus humans.
