PSYC20008 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Deductive Reasoning, Heredity, Prototype Theory

• School: University of Melbourne
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC20008
• Professor: Katheirne Johnson

Document Summary

Begins to develop sense of object permanence (9 months+) Begins to understand mental representations and operational thought. Key ideas: qualitative changes in children"s thought, invariant sequence in patterns of thought. Problems with piagetian theory: focused on inabilities rather than abilities, ignored the social context, focused on decontextualized rather than everyday problems, says little about language development. Information processing theories: focused on factors that support thinking, memory, attention, language development etc, focuses on quantitative changes with age. Social construction of thought: vygotsky emphasized the role of the socialisation in children"s intellectual development (peers and parents) via language. Zone of proximal development (zpd): the zone of potential development, Relationship between self and other, importance of cultural practice. language and cognition. Infant"s starter kit : reflexes, sensory abilities, and, socio-emotional capabilities. Inborn, automatic responses to different forms of stimulation. Some may be refined over time to become complex patterns of behaviours, others may drop out.