EDUC105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Egg Cup, Object Permanence
28 Aug 2018
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* how humans make sense of their environment by gathering and organising information. * he was interested in how children incorrectly solve problems. * one of the first, found distinct difference between 5,8 and 12 year olds and same grouping ages were making the same mistakes. * used different method for research, observational/case studies. * he used his own three children as his studies. * small sample (his sample of three) they were from a pool of well educated upper middle class daily, no diversity, how could it be applied to other children. * later on he did use other children. * published exclusively in french, journal articles weren"t being published in usa and britain. * profound differences of knowledge and behavious between those ages. * not what they knew but their thinking processes. * explain progressive process of cognitive development in children, strong theory.
