PSYCH 2GG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Neuroscience, Information Processing
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Lecture 8 representation development of representation in children: representation and cognitive theory: Bruner"s theory of representation = categorization: forming concepts involves categorization. A category can be thought of as a rule for classifying things as being equal: specifying the attributes objects must possess to belong. Categorizing implies the possibility of going beyond the information given (of making predictions about events or objects based on their category membership). Two models of abstraction: prototype, exemplar. Piaget"s research and theories influenced psychology and education. Developmental: processes by which children achieve a progressively more advanced understanding of their environment and of themselves. His first interests were primarily in biology, a field in which he obtained his ph. d. at the age of 22. After receiving his doctorate, piaget spent a year wandering through europe, uncertain about what to do next. During this year, he worked in a psychoanalytic clinic, in a psychological laboratory, and eventually in alfred binet"s laboratory.
