Essays Tagged: "Object permanence"

What contribution did Jean Piaget make to the understanding of child development.

erstands the world (Vasta, Haith and Miller, 1999). The infant combines these schemas to achieve an objective i.e. using the hitting schema to knock down the barrier between the infant and a toy. So t ... of symbolic representation whereby the child shows the ability to use words or actions to represent objects. The main areas Piaget saw the emergence of these was in the acquisition of language, symbol ...

(8 pages) 313 1 4.7 Apr/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Piaget's Theory.

e organism to an active body which begins to act intentionally, and at the end of this stage it has object permanence, trying to look for an object which has just disappeared form its sight. Then, chi ... velop conservation skills. We have to note that in this case the children also require the skill of object identity to do this. Thus, the skill of object identity learned in the preoperational stage h ...

(2 pages) 163 2 3.5 Apr/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Cognitive development.

ges, to successfully do the tasks designed to test the critical skills.For example, in the study of object permanence, when an infant is shown a toy that is then hidden or covered while they watch, th ... since they have no attempt to look for it. However, we should note that this task requires not only object permanence, but also attention (for paying attention to the toy), memory (for remembering whe ...

(2 pages) 147 1 2.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Piaget's Theory of Cgnitive Development:Discuss the 5 stages of cognitive development

oncepts about reality and how it works. This is the stage where a child does not know that physical objects remain in existence even when out of sight, known as object permanence. A child's intelligen ... . From 2 to 7 years old, children demonstrate an increased ability to use symbols to represent real objects in their environment. Children in this stage have difficulties seeing another's point of vie ...

(3 pages) 303 4 3.4 Jul/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Pain Management in Children

of painful experiences. Cognition of the toddler: has the capacity for basic reasoning; understands object permanence; has the beginnings of memory; the understanding of causality; and begins to play ...

(2 pages) 37 1 3.0 Jul/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Piaget's cognitive development

th alone they can get a feel for the texture, the taste, the size, and the general fun factor of an object from putting it in their mouth's. Another development that occurs in this stage is that by on ... t by one year a child can mimic basic gestures that you make at them. Young infant's dos not posses object permanence, which is the awareness that objects continue to exist when not perceived. So if y ...

(4 pages) 137 0 5.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Describe Piaget's view of and research on (a) infants' understanding of objects, and (b) infants' ability to imitate. Discuss to what extent his view has been supported by subsequent research.

rent result. This essay aims to investigate Piaget's view and research on infants' understanding of objects and ability to imitate. The starting point will be a brief introduction on Piaget's theory, ... o imitate. The starting point will be a brief introduction on Piaget's theory, and then, concept of object permanence and imitation in infants will be discussed in turn. Various researches will also b ...

(8 pages) 50 0 5.0 Mar/2007

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Cognitive Development

of the infant's life they proceed through several stages. In the first month they have no idea that objects are permanent. The first to the fourth month infant's will stare at a spot where an object d ... ir attention to something else. The fourth to the eighth month infant's begin to show signs that an object exists although they cannot see it. The eighth to the twelfth month infant's develop the nota ...

(4 pages) 104 0 3.0 Jul/2001

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Child Psychology : Infants and Hidden Object Tasks

What can we learn about how infants think from their performance on ?hidden object? tasks? There are different explanations as to how children develop and there will always be ... re namely assimilation, accommodation and equilibration.An infants understanding (particularly with object?s) they apparently, adapt an existing schema when they come across conflicting and new inform ... conflicting and new information. In this case the infant eventually adapts to the concept that the object doesn?t in fact disappear, but is still present and the child shows that it has learnt this i ...

(8 pages) 76 0 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Study to investigate the order of conservation tasks in young children - Piaget

of a child's life, and learning primarily occurs through their senses. The child will also develop object permanence. The pre-operational stage is where a child's thinking becomes more dominated by o ...

(10 pages) 34 0 0.0 Dec/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Piaget Chart

esses from reflexive and instinctual action to the beginning of symbolic thought, begins to develop object permanence and motor skills, has little to no capacity for symbolic representation and has an ... tand that during a game of peek - a - boo, the person has not disappeared. This is the beginning of object permanencePreoperationalOccurs between ages two and seven. The child represents the wor ...

(1 pages) 2 0 0.0 Sep/2014

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Sensation & Perception