18 Piaget Flashcards
Out of Sight But Not Out of Mind Year
1954
Out of Sight But Not Out of Mind Author
Piaget
Out of Sight But Not Out of Mind Background/Theory (4 things)
(1) Piaget noticed that children of similar ages would make the same mistakes when answering questions on an IQ test.
(2) His theory holds that during childhood, humans progress through four stages of cognitive development that always occur in the same sequence.
(3) He discovered the idea of Object Permanence, which is your ability to know that an object exists even when it is hidden from your senses.
(4) He theorized that in order to move from the sensori motor stage to the preoperational stage, we must first develop object permanence.
Out of Sight But Not Out of Mind Method/Results
(1) Stage 4: Visible Displacement - He hides the parrot under the blanket several times and the child learns that when the parrot disappears it can be found there, even when she sees him hide it elsewhere.
(2) Stage 5: Piaget hides the potato in the box, moves the box under the rug, takes the potato out, and then gives the child the empty box. She can’t figure out that the potato must be under the rug.
(3) Stage 6: Wraps a pencil in paper, puts it in a box, puts the box in a handkerchief, and places it under a beret. The child can work through all the layers and find the pencil.
Out of Sight But Not Out of Mind Significance (3 things)
(1) It appears as though Piaget demonstrated that child development happens sequentially in stages and is cognitive rather than learned.
(2) Ages are approximate.
(3) Stages must occur in this order.
Out of Sight But Not Out of Mind Legacy (3 things)
(1) Some criticize stage theory, saying that development is continuous.
(2) Other researchers have demonstrated that infants as young as 2.5 months demonstrate some notion of object permanence.
(3) Other researchers showed that infants with more advanced ideas of object permanence suffer from significantly fewer sleep disturbances.
