PSYC 304 Lecture 6: PSYC 304 Lecture 6

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 304
• Professor: Stephan Gaskin

Document Summary

Piaget: adaptation: interact with environment, includes assimilation and accommodation. Equilibrium: cognitive equilibrium: steady, comfortable state characterized by assimilation more than accommodation, cognitive disequilibrium: state of cognitive discomfort, shift from assimilation toward accommodation then back toward assimilation. Formal operational won"t only put on forehead but other more imaginative places. Study of cognitive development itself: a new constructivist view of children (that they can build their own knowledge and active participant of own environment. Sociocultural perspective: vygotsky"s theory: cognitive development is inseparable from social and cultural contexts, private speech: comments intended to regulate own behavior. Zone of proximal development: difference between what one can do alone or with assistance. Information processing: people and computers are both symbol processors, distinction between hardware and software, hardware includes sensory, working and long term memory coordinated by the central executive, software is task specific, as we develop, our memory capacity improves.