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Developmental Psych Final

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Constructivist Framework
Piaget thinks kids make increasingly complex cognitive structures as they age
Binet
Made the IQ test for assessing mental age
Accomodation
Difference made in information so you can categorize it
Assimilation
process of taking material in from the world
Sensorimotor Stage
Shake a ratle ---> make noise (mostly natural reflexes)
Object Permenance
Understand an object stays there if a blanket goes over it, shows moving into preoperational stage
Baillargeon and Colleagues (1991)
Object permanence - found that children, much younger than suggested by Piaget have object permanence. May be born with the presumption that objects exist in time and space.
Violation of Expectation Model
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Preoperational Phase
2-7 year old: have difficulty seeing other's perspectives, classify objects using a single characteristic and are learning language
Centration
Focusing on a single aspect of a situation
Perceptual Salience
Focus on the things that stick out to us
Inability to Distinguish Reality and Appearance
Cat with dog mask on
DeVries (1969)
Cat with dog mask on
2yo say dog
3yo say cat that barks
4yo say cat that looks like dog
Egocentrism
Only considering their own perspectives
Piaget & Inhelder
Measured the ability of children to take on other perspectives by matching pictures from a camera to their angles. Almost always chose their own perspective
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