PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Third Eye, Naturalistic Observation, Hideki Matsutake
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Piaget"s theory of cognitive development father of the field of cognitive development piaget"s big question: what is knowledge, where does it come from, place to start is children bc they don"t know much. Build ideas of how the world works: maturationist. Our development is tied to biological maturation. Children couldn"t have certain knowledge before specific cognitive development occurred. Assimilation: new experience that you interpret in terms of existing schemes: may lead to cognitive disequilibrium. Accommodation: happens when you cant interpret a novel stimulus, accommodate scheme (change cognitive structure, expand knowledge. Examples: effects of new data on scientific theories. If data doesn"t fit theory (cid:0) change theory so that it can explain data (accommodation) Adaptation to a new object 1: when assimilation works: see a cat (equilibrium) (cid:0) see new type of cat (disequilibrium) (cid:0) decide it is still a cat (assimilation) (cid:0) equilibrium. Before dolphin: things that live in water = fish.
