PSYCH 3AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Toaster, Jean Piaget, List Of Fallacies
29 Jun 2017
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Set out to charge intelligence of elementary school children. Instead, discovered distinctive ways of teaching at certain ages: created cognitive stages (different reasoning errors as children grew up until adulthood, in a clear pattern) Infants interact w/ environment and experience sensations, but capabilities is very limited, no extra thought or processing: ex. Peek-a-boo: piaget: babies stay static from 0-2 in their cognitive development wrong. Preoperational: 2-7: child develops ability to create and use symbols, able to use imaginary ideas during play (ex. Formal operations: 11: corresponds well with the beginning of adolescence/ puberty, thinking now is based on an abstract system that follows formal logic, doesn"t need to be compared to anything concrete, ex. Processes piaget used to explain how children go about gaining new information: assimilation: process by which child tries to learn new experiences by comparing them to previous knowledge (ex. Piaget: this is the way children take in new information.
