PSYC 3506 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jean Piaget, Genetic Epistemology
23 Jan 2015
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Piaget addressed fundamental issues the theory had exceptional breadth. Piaget made a number of very interesting observations. Gave us a good place to start in understanding cognition: he influenced philosophical and biological theory- genetic epistemology ( study of knowledge, he wanted to know where knowledge came from. Nature of the theory it is a stage theory. Different way of understanding that makes one stage more advanced than another and a qualitative shift in thinking. At a given point in development , children reason similarly on many problems. Theory entails that there is consistency (concurrence assumption) He is a constructivist children construct their own cognitive worlds. Children can be seen as scientific problem solvers he sees them as active constructors of knowledge. And the way they solved problems as infants was indicative of how they could adapt to the challenges later in life that were posed: equilibration only occurs when something disrupts the childs equilibrium (what they perceive as normal).
