HDEV 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Procedural Knowledge, Motor Skill, Egocentrism

• School: Binghamton University
• Department: Human Development
• Course: HDEV 200
• Professor: Anne Merriwether

Document Summary

Intro: piaget rationalist, vygotsky coconstrutive-emphasis on sociohistorical factors, both examined cognition and language relationships, interpretation for reasons of importance differed but both saw language as having a strong interface w/ cognition. Knowledge: native switzerland, always interested in science, worked mainly in geneva during ww2 research was conducted, not until after war did it reach. Assimilation: when a new object (or idea) is incorporated into existing schema. @ the same time: vertical decalage: evidence of invariant aspects of knowledge construction, knowledge constructed from 3 sources, facilitated through equilibration process, physical knowledge: interaction w/ physical world. Involves learning properties of various objects, their actios in space and time: logicomathematical knowledge: comparisons of relationship among. Learned by comparing and experimenting w/ relationships and ideas. Source of knowledge is in individuals categorizing and comparing characteristics of objects: social arbitrary knowledge: knowledge that must be transmitted by other humans.