PSYC 251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Collaborative Learning, Mental Representation, Active Child
9 Jan 2017
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Constructivist theory (active child: child explores the world, make their own schemas /concepts of their own accord, each child sees the world slightly differently. Children generate hypotheses, perform experiments, and draw conclusions. Both nature and nurture are important: was a biologist, became interested in how kids answered questions. research was done on his own children, or on children that went to high-end boarding school. Did(cid:374)"t (cid:272)o(cid:374)sider environment, or individual differences (sample unrepresentative) Discontinuous stages: cocoon to butterfly, children think a particular way at different stages. Continuous processes: process by which they form schemas, biological drive to make sense of the world driven by: Assimilation: integrate new info into existing schemes. Kids talk to themselves about their days, organize their thoughts, make sense of their days. Equilibrium: no discrepancy btw experience and understanding. Disequilibrium: discrepancy understood, leads to better understanding. **criticized for not making processes clear, some are similar to each other.
