PSYC 2500H Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sensory Neuron, Personal Fable, 18 Months

• School: Trent University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2500H
• Professor: Geoffrey Navara

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Psyc2500 week 5: cognitive development piaget and vygotsky. Midterm format: 80 multiple choice, answer 4 of 5 short answer. Goals of cognitive development research: chart typical course of development, examine individual differences, uncover mechanisms of cognitive development. Basi(cid:272)s of piaget"s theory: general theory, considers all aspects of cognition, constructivist approach, stages, they are invariant, they are universal (all children develop through the same stages, schemes, piaget"s ba(cid:272)kgrou(cid:374)d, https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=l_6y32c8xxc. Schemes: are psychological structures, organized ways of making sense of experience, change with age, action-based (motor patterns) at first later move to a mental (thinking) level. Assimilation and accommodation: assimilation, using current schemes to interpret external world, used during equilibrium. Egocentrism and animalistic thinking: egocentrism thinking, animalistic thinking failure to disti(cid:374)guish others" (cid:448)ie(cid:449)s fro(cid:373) o(cid:374)e"s o(cid:449)(cid:374, belief that inanimate objects have life like qualities lack hierarchal conversation, limits on conversation, centration, focus on one aspect and neglect others.