FRHD 2270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Lev Vygotsky, Egocentrism
1 Jun 2018
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Cognitive Processes
• Piaget
• Operational = logic
• Early childhood: pre-logical
• Preoperational stage
• Egocentrism: all about me
o Ego: me
o Can only see from their perspective
o Centration
▪ Center: one
▪ Ca’t reeer ore that oe thig at a tie
• Conversation (physical – same weight, different sizes)
• Animism: objects are real with feelings
• Theory of mind: understanding between mind and behaviour
o Understand different mental states
▪ Remember, think, believe
o Uderstad thikig, a lie or deeive
▪ Do’t look at X, the do ad sa the did’t
Executive Functioning
• Part of brain: intentional, self-regulated behaviour
• Cogitive ailities iludig attetio, oetratio, plaig, orgaizig, refletig o oe’s
behaviour and thoughts
o Not able?
▪ Indication of autism or other cognitive disabilities
Information Processing
• Attention: focus on X to be processed
o Increased age, increased attention
o If not, brain injury?
• Memory
o Autobiographical: emerges in preschool
▪ Events and experiences in own life
Information-Processing
• Counting principles
o One-to-one: one name, one number
o Stable-order: number names must be counted in order
o Cardinality
• Need to understand numbers to understand math
Vygotsky
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