PSY 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cognitive Development, 18 Months, Inductive Reasoning
15 Dec 2015
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Piaget"s theory: view of children"s nature. They are constructing their knowledge by actively exploring their environment. They then use that knowledge to guide their experiences in the world. Children learn many important things on their own through discovery. Believes that children are intrinsically motivated to learn: e. g. , i want to do it on my own, central development issues. Children have 2 inborn tendencies: adaptation, organization. Being able to adjust or respond through the environment through assimilation and accommodation. Being able to integrate observations and experiences to form more coherent and complex knowledge. Equilibration: a balanced mix of assimilation and accommodation that creates a stable understanding, equilibrium. When children are satisfied with their understanding of a particular phenomenon. New information makes them realize their understanding is inadequate: disequilibrium, new equilibrium. Develop a more sophisticated understanding that eliminates the shortcomings of the old one. Cognitive development occurs in distinct, hierarchical stages with each stage building on the previous one: qualitative change.
