CD 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cognitive Development, Egocentrism
17 Apr 2017
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Can"t perform mental operations: mental operations. Centration: the tendency to focus on only one feature of an object to the exclusion of all others. According to piaget, the greatest limitation of young children"s thinking: gives rise to three common early childhood errors. Egocentrism: the tendency to be captive to ones own perspective and unable to take that of another. Confusing appearance and reality: young children may confuse appearance and reality. Precausal reasoning: the tendency to reason from one particular to another. Early childhood education: dual representation is dif cult. Monday, april 17, 2017: the brain is the hardware, software are practices we use to process info. Cognitive development in privileged domains: domain of physics. Naive physics: learning how things happen, domain of psychology. Developed theory of mind leads to improved peer social skills: domain of biology. Understanding difference between living things and inanimate objects. Explaining domain speci c cognitive development: modularity theory.
