PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Lev Vygotsky, Object Permanence, Egocentrism
2 Feb 2016
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Cognitive development: study of how children acquire the ability to learn, think, reason, communicate, and remember. Numerous explanations of how we acquire the ability to learn, think, communicate, and remember over time. Sudden spurts in knowledge followed by a relatively stable period. Continuous, gradual, incremental development: domain-general vs domain-speci c. All (or most) areas of cognitive function change/develop at the same time. Each area/domain has different independent growth of skills. Iq is not only about genetics but also social skills. Principal source of learning: models differ in views of principal source of learning. Physical experience, or social interaction, or biological maturation. Thought end point of cognitive development is ability to reason logically about hypotheticals. Children use assimilation to acquire new knowledge within a stage: have an idea then add extra knowledge to that idea forces change between stages. The absorption of new experience into current schemas/thinking. Accommodation: changing current thinking/belief to make it more compatible with experience.
