PSYCH 9B Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Icq, Executive Functions, Attachment Theory
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A bit of review: key construct: assimilation, fitting a new information to your existing knowledge, accommodation, changing/adding to your existing knowledge because of new information, equilibration. A bit of review: critiques of piaget: ages at which skills appear don"t match, development tends to be more continuous, executive functioning is important. Increasing more knowledge about the world, rather than qualitatively different. Executive control: sustaining and directing attention, maintaining information in working memory, coordinating goal-directed behavior, thinking through consequences of behaviors. Enduring contributions of piaget: children are active participants, the best way to study cognitive development is to observe/talk to children, first comprehensive and testable theory of cognitive development spawned entire field. Icq: do you think piaget would recommend educational television for babies and young children: you can learn, but you are not able to act on the information not healthy for children to watch educational television, according to piaget.
