PSY 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Joint Attention, Intersubjectivity, Collaborative Learning
9 Mar 2016
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Piaget"s theory of cognitive development (how they learn and form knowledge: view of children"s nature, central dev. View of children"s nature: constructivist (learn through their environment, three basic assumptions. Learning many important lessons on their own (discovery/exploring) Intrinsically motivated to learn (don"t need to be pushed to learn ) Central development issues: nature and nurture, nature and nurture interact to produce cognitive development, adaptation: adjust or respond to the environment (assimilation, accommodation, organization: integrate observations/experiences into coherent knowledge/understanding, source of continuity: Three processes: assimilation: interpret new experiences with existing knowledge structure. Small kids know what kittens are and when they see tiger at a zoo they call it a kitten (because its similar: accommodation: modify existing knowledge structure to interpret new experiences. E. g. they realize that cats are not same as tigers and they change their knowledge structure and modify it: equilibration: balance assimilation and accommodation to create stable understanding. It"s a plane! (example: equilibrium: all flying objects are birds.
