PSYB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Almost Surely, Habituation, Object Permanence
1 May 2017
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Cognition: examining the many ways in which human beings acquire and process knowledge, jean piaget important to this field, based on work with his own children. Development through piaget"s eyes: changes occur in the structure of thinking processes, reflected in learning, accomplishments and errors are equally important. Week 5, lecture 4: same aged children made similar children which were qualitatively different from children older and younger specific, children at different ages have different way of understanding things and different inadequacies in understanding lead to different errors. Internalize strategies; don"t have to use objects to understand. Concrete operations period: logical reasoning, transitive inferences if a>b, and b>c, then a>c, conditional reasoning if a then b statements. If a true, then b true: syllogism. If a is false, the b can either be true or false: chidlren should be able to understand basic syllogisms, e. g. Yes: e. g. if this is room 7, then it is the fourth grade.
