Jaymie TicknorDevelopmental Psychology 3620 Sect. 8534 October 2013Lecture #14Chapter #7 PowerpointPreoperational Stage II:Egocentrism: unable to see things from others’ view; three mountains task (seeing thingson one side compared to what the other person is seeing on the other side)Animism: give human characteristics to inanimate or natural thingsConservation: (lacking this stage); working memory; quantity of something remains the same regardless of changes in its appearance (same amount of liquid but in different shapes)Stage of Concrete Operations: (7-12 years old)Think logically; conservation developedReversibilityAbility to reverse operations mentallyPay attention to the process and howClassificationAbility to classify objects into categoriesQuestions asked in the “guess who” gameSeriationPut objects in order by height, weight, etc…Stage of Formal Operations: (12 years and older)Concrete examples to understand abstract thinkingHypothetico-deductive reasoning:Form hypotheses, reason logically for answers, and systematically test themAdolescent egocentrismImaginary audiencePersonal fable
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