PSY 308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Beach Ball, Jean Piaget, Active Child
29 Dec 2014
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Class notes psy302 lecture 4 know theoretical distinctions. Jean piaget"s theory of cognitive development believed that if you removed an object from a young infants sight it would lead to act as if the object never existed. Why not just one theory: because development is so complex no single theory accounts for all of it. Theories of cognitive and social development, for example, focus on different capabilities. The theories examined in this lecture allow a broader appreciation of cognitive development than any one of them does by itself. Three most important parts of the the children"s constructive processes: generating hypotheses, performing experiments, and drawing conclusions from observations. Constructivist theory: children are seen as (you can"t shape them with rewards and punishments) Intrinsically motivated to learn we come to the world wanting to learn. Ex: a child keeps digging up the garden, and the mother keeps telling the child to stop.
