PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Siamese Cat, Tabby Cat, Cognitive Development
9 Dec 2014
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Children build their own knowledge of the world through experience. We continually organise what we know, structuring and restructuring: maturationist. As we mature, certain skills and abilities come forth. Children could not have certain kinds of knowledge before biological unveiling: piaget on piaget, 1977, believed in genetic epistemology, empiricists - human knowledge comes from what we do to objects. Knowledge is perception. (a child draws an idea of what he sees his interpretation) Knowledge is not always moulded by things we observe. We would be able to go back on the evolutionary time scale to find the origin of mathematics, otherwise: string length and triangle drawing experiments, the development of intelligence is a series of sequential constructions or hierarchical stages. Seeking new information, and seeking to explain new information: kids construct their own knowledge, but within the confines of what they already know. What they currently know is the lens through which they interpret new things: e. g.
