CHYS 2P10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Genetic Epistemology, Cognitive Development, Pretty Smart

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Major force in how kids come to understand and learn. His dad was a professor in medieval literature so this imprinted on him and made him a pretty smart kid. Published articles about mollusks at the age of 15. Taught in paris at a school run by binet. He noticed that a lot of kids were consistently giving long answers, and the same kids. It was while he was marking the tests that he got interested in kids understandings were making the same mistakes that the older kids were not making. This led him to the fact that children"s cognitive learning is much different then that of adults and that there might possible be stages. Genetic epistemology: genetic = development, epistemology = knowing, understanding. Ages and stages connects what children can and cannot understand at different ages. Theory of development: describes how children development these cognitive skills.

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