T2: Lecture 2 Flashcards
What were Jean Piaget’s four stages of development?
- Sensimotor Stage
- Pre-ocupational Stage
- Concrete Operations Stage
- Formal Operations Stage
What age range is the Sensimotor stage?
Birth-2yrs
What’s the key description involved in the Sensimotor stage?
Cognition is tiedd to external stimulation
What are the three components in Semsimotor stage?
- Object Permanence
- Schema Formation
- Representational Thought
What is Object Permenance?
Idea that objects don’t cease to exist when out of sight
There are five stages in Object Permanence, describe the key ideas in each one
- (Birth-3 months)
- Looks at visual stimulus
- Turns towards noise
- NO eye tracking - (3 months)
- Tracking object
- Stares at spot where object disappeared
- WILL NOT SEARCH for disappearing object - (5 months)
- Grasps and manipulates objects
- Anticipates future position of objects (seagull going behind the screen) - (8 months)
- Searches for object
- ‘A not B error’: searching in last successful place object was found not place of disappearance - (12 months)
- Searches for place last saw object
What is Schema Formation?
Mental representation/set of rules that defines a particular behaviour category
-Helps understand current/future experiences
What are the two processes of Schema Formation?
- Assimilation: process where new info is modified to fit an existing schema e.g. dog at park says “rabbit”
- Accomodation: process where an existing schema is modified by new experience e.g. sees rabbit says “rabbit”
What is Representational Thought?
Ability to form mental representations
What are Mental Representations instrumental in?
- Imitation=same time as seeing
- Deferred Imitation=action seen prior
- Symbolic Play=uses one thing to represent another
- Use of words to represent objects
What age range is the Pre-Ocupational stage?
2-7 years
What’s the key description involved in the Pre-operational stage?
Ability to think logically as well as symbolically
What’s is involved in the Pre-operational stage?
- Rapid development of language
- Categorisation and classification, counting, object manipulation
1. Failure of Conservation
2. Egocentrism
What is Failure of Conservation
Failure to understand that specific object properties remain the same despite apparent changes/arrangement of the objects e.g. weight, volume, number
What is Egocentrism?
Children’s belief that others see the world in the same way as they do
