PSY 302 Lecture Notes - Jean Piaget, Almost Surely, Object Permanence
13 Apr 2014
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Why developmental theories: provide a framework for understanding important phenomena, raise crucial questions about human nature, motivate new research studies that lead to a better understanding of children. Because development is so complex no single theory accounts for all of it. Theories of cognitive and social development, for example, focus on different capabilities. The theories examined in this lecture allow a broader appreciation of cognitive development than any one of them does by itself. Jean piaget"s theory remains the standard against which all other theories are judged. Constructivist theory children construct an understanding of their world based on observations of the effects of their behaviour. Cognitive structures: basic mental tools needed to make sense of information. Organization: the tendency to integrate particular observations into coherent knowledge. Internal rearrangement and linking together of schemes. Existing schemes used to interpret novel information. Adaptation: the tendency to respond to the demands of the environment to meet one"s goals.
