PSYC 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Active Child, Lev Vygotsky, Psych
22 Oct 2015
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Development psych lecture #3 - piaget & vygotsky. Cognition: mental activity through which human beings acquire and process knowledge. Cognition includes many mental processes, such as perception, attention, learning, memory, and reasoning. Used evolution as model for development: knowledge not innate but evolves through adaptation. Significant background facts: biology (evolution, binet (education and development) First he noticed that the same age tended to get the same answers wrong. Second he observed that the errors of children of a particular age differed in systematic ways from those of older or younger children. To study, piaget relied on two methods: interviews and observations. Piaget"s main tenet: the child actively seeks knowledge. Piaget argued that children actively seek out information. When children encounter new information, they actively try to fit it in with the knowledge they already possess. Constructionist view: the idea that children actively create their understanding of the world as they encounter new information and have new experiences.
