PSYC 251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Lev Vygotsky, Intersubjectivity, Joint Attention
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Believed that the child constructed their own constructs/schemas. Children generate hypotheses, perform experiments, and draw conclusions. Intrinsically motivated to learn: piaget was trained as a biologist and worked in a lab studying development so it explains why he would believe in the effects of nature and nurture on the growing child. Believed in discontinuous stages: thought that children thought a specific way at each stage. Believed children have biological drive to make sense of the world that is driven by: Adaptation response to environment: assimilation integrate new info into existing schemes, accommodation restructure schemes with new info child has acquired, these are sub processes of adaptation. Equilibration balances assimilation and accommodation: equilibrium no discrepancy between experience and understanding, disequilibrium discrepancy understood, which leads to better understanding. When a child is in the middle of a stage, there is little accommodation and lots of assimilation, when changing stages, it"s the opposite.