PSYC1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Developmental Psychology, Intelligence Quotient, Homeostasis
12 Jul 2018
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Very important in developmental psychology: piaget"s stage development theory of cognitive development, vygotsky"s socio-cultural approach, although old (by psychology terms) they are relevant even in today"s research, the way we teach children affected by these. Frist academic paper at 10, and phd at 22. Have to elaborate the schema to gain a more complex understanding: equilibration: process which children strike a balance between assimilation and accommodation. Their representations of the word, and the actual world. Important process in the change in knowledge structures over time: central properties, qualitative changes: children at different ages think in different ways. First, non-abstract: limited to their sensory at motor experiences: gradually improve abstract thinking, children initially conceive morality in terms of consequences and only later in terms of intent, eg. Invariant sequence: children pass through the developmental stage in the same order: universality: theory applies to all children everywhere (ie. does not predict cross cultural differences.
