PSYC 354 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cognitive Development, Metatheory, Social Cognition
2 Jan 2015
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Models of development, metatheoretical assumptions, theory, evidence, conceptual analysis: cognitive development. Piaget, vygotsky, information processing: infant social cognitive development, language development/meaning, social cognition ( theories of mind , moral development. Science has a philosophy or ethics contrast to what wolpert thinks. Philosophical rules as how science has to be done. Philosophy = second order investigation (investigating the psychologist, how they interpret data, bias, metatheoratical assumptions) Philosophy clarify our understanding of issues, and particular questions we have. Metatheoretical assumptions: (often unacknowledged) philosophical assumptions on which theories are based, two world views , 1) individualistic (split) Social understanding: a split from infants and older people. Piaget: just start with activity: 2) relational: start from relations (systems), Includes enactivism, interactivism, embodied cognition, situated cognition, relational constructivism, developmental systems theory, process approaches. Neo-darwinian theory vs more developmental approaches (evo-devo, dst, etc): metaphors: useful as a starting point, getting people think from different way.
