Lesson 4 - PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE OF THE SELF PART 1

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“Self is the sense of personal
identity and of who we are as
individuals.
”

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Jhagiani and Tarry,

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is the scientific study of human
behavior and mental process.

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PSYCHOLOGY

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Four goals of psychology:

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• Describe
• Explain
• Predict
• Modify

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what the person is doing

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Describe

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why is she/he doing that

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Explain

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what is he going to do

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Predict

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how can we change the behavior

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Modify

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Deals with the nature of knowledge itself and how
humans come to acquire it.

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Theory of Cognitive Development

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observed how children processed and
made sense of the world around them and eventually
developed a four-stage model of how the mind processes
the information encountered.

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JEAN PIAGET

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the building blocks of knowledge; mental
organizations that individuals use to understand their
environments.

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SCHEMA

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how a child’s learning process meets
the situational demands

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ADAPTATION

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reflects the increasing
sophistication of the child’s thought processes.

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STAGES OF Cognitive Dev’t

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Basic Concepts of Cognitive Dev.
Theories

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• ASSIMILATION:
• ACCOMMODATION:

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the application of previous concepts
to new concepts

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ASSIMILATION

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when existing ideas are
challenged; correct your thinking so that your thought
process would adapt

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ACCOMMODATION

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• knowledge is through senses (tasting, seeing, smelling, touching, hearing)
• object permanence develops between 4 and 9 months
• 0-2 approximate age

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Sensorimotor Stage

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• Verbal and egocentric thinking develop
• can do mentally what once could only do physically
• conservation of shape, number, liquid not yet possible
• 6-11 approximate age

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Preoperational Stage

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• Abstract Reasoning
• Systemic problem solving is now possible (no longer just trial and error)
• Ability to think about and reflect upon one’s thinking (metacognition)
• Scientific reasoning

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Formal Operational Stage

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Principles and ideals develop

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Abstract Reasoning

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The ability to realize that objects still exist when
they are not being sensed.

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OBJECT PERMANENCE

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Believing that inanimate objects are alive

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Animistic Thinking

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not being capable of seeing things from another
person’s perspectives

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Egocentrism