PSYCH211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 99: Poppyseed Oil, Lev Vygotsky, Vagueness
3 Apr 2017
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Focus: theories, experimental methods, and major findings of research on infant and child psychological development. Important themes: individual difference, sociocultural differences, human universals, nature and nurture, nativism vs. empiricism, learning, characterizing development (stage theory), competence vs. performance. Performance: what you do with your knowledge / how good you are. Important for knowing what something means and make predictions. Perceptual: infant cannot differentiate other men from her father. Communicative: infant knows better, but trying to communicate. New theories are developed all the time. Wrote first article at age 10 or 11 on albino sparrow. Many articles are on his own children. Observations - jacqueline putting her nose close to her mother"s cheek and then pressed it against it repeated at least once a day for more than a month, as a ritual. Generate hypotheses perform experiments draw conclusions. Piaget"s theory: development moves forward through three processes.
