CHYS 2P10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Implicit Memory, Explicit Memory, Igloo
7 Mar 2016
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Chys 2p10 lecture 4 january 25th 2016. Course business: midterm is in two weeks (feb. 8th) 100 questions: lab debates begin this week. Jean piaget: born in 1896 in neuchatel, switzerland. Piaget and his family: he started off by examining his own children. Structures are unobservable mental systems that underlie intelligence. Have some interesting new knowledge: accommodation - is the rearranging of previous ideas so that they incorporate the new. Rearranging what you know: equilibration - the organizations attempt to keep schemas in balance with new information information. Summary of development: new information causes disequilibrium, motivating the child to restore equilibrium by assimilating the information, and then accommodating existing information to fit the new information leading to a new organization of thought within the child. Sequential (must occur in order), required (for functioning at that level), universal (occur in all children: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational.
