PSY 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cultural-Historical Psychology, Weighing Scale, Object Permanence
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Psy302, section 011 (dr. ma) |child development | february 12, 2014| lecture 4. Sessions 1 & 2: theories of cognitive development. Cognition: activity of knowing and the mental processes used to acquire knowledge and solve problems. Cognitive development: changes that occue in these mental skills and abilities over the course of life. Children are seen as active, learning many things on their own and intrinsically motivated to learn. A constructivist approach: child as scientist, often labeled as constructivist (children construct knowledge for themselves, self discovering) Nature and nurture interact to yield cognitive development. Adaptation: tendency to respond to the demands of the environment to meet one"s goals. Organization: tendency to integrate particular observations into coherent knowledge. Assimilation: translate new information into a form you already have/understand (ex. think penguin is fish, both swim in the water) Accommodation: when new information doesn"t fit, you need to restructure theories (learn they"re birds)
