CAS PS 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Irreversible Process, Egocentrism, Object Permanence
14 Dec 2017
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Cognition"s the study of the mental processes that are involved in thought. For example, the study of how we think about different topics, solve problems, form new concepts, reason about events and remember stuff. Piaget, who was swiss, started as a snail-collector. He moved snails around in different environments and used his experiences in his biology studies. He noticed that when you move na organism from one organism to another, it changes, trying to adapt to the new environment. This concept can be applied to children: new environments for children can develop a totally new way of thinking. You cannot change a child"s mind before it is ready to change. Nonetheless, environments in interaction with biology can make changes all throughout the organism. He later became the most in uential developmental psychologist ever. When he was 20 he got a job in paris and worked on the rst ever intelligence tests on kids.
