PSY 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Subjective Constancy, Visual Acuity, Color Vision
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Psy302 lecture 4 textbook notes (ch. 4 + some ch. 5) His approach is labeled as construcivist, because it depicts children as construcing knowledge for themselves in response to their experience. 3 most important of children"s construcive processes are: generaing hypotheses, performing experiments, and drawing conclusions from observaions. Piaget believed that nature and nurture interact to produce cogniive development. Nurture includes not just nurturing provided by parents and other caregivers but every experience the child encounters. Both adaptaion and organizaion involve children"s response to experience, so it can be said that part of children"s nature is to respond to their nurture. Piaget depicted development as involving both coninuiies and disconinuiies. The main sources of coninuity are 3 processes: assimilaion, accommodaion, and equilibrium. Assimilaion: the process by which people incorporate incoming informaion into concepts they already understand. Accommodaion: the process by which people adapt their current understandings in response to new experiences.
