PSYCHOLOGY Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Middle Age, Mcgraw-Hill Education, Preadolescence

• School: University of San Jose-Recoletos
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCHOLOGY

Document Summary

Parenting is a complex activity that includes many specific behaviors that work individually and together to influence child outcomes. Piaget"s cognitive development- said that a person understands whatever information fits into his established view of the world. When information does not fit, the person must reexamine and adjust his thinking to accommodate the new information. Stages of cognitive development: sensorimotor stage (infancy). In this period (which has 6 stages), intelligence is demonstrated through motor activity without the use of symbols: pre-operational stage (toddler and early childhood). In this period, intelligence is demonstrated through the use of symbols, language use matures, and memory and imagination are developed, but thinking is done in a nonlogical, nonreversable manner: concrete operational stage (elementary and early adolescence). In this stage, intelligence is demonstrated through logical and systematic manipulation of symbols related to concrete objects: formal operational stage (adolescence and adulthood).