PSY 2105 Lecture Notes - Mental Representation, Egocentrism, Problem Solving
13 Feb 2013
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Cognition: higher order mental processes by which humans understand and adapt to the world: thinking, reasoning, learning, problem solving. Developmental psychology seeks to understand how the form and function of cognition changes across the life span. First to suggest that children see the world differently to adults. First to offer a systematic theoretical account of the process of mental growth. Observed and recorded young children in their play. And there are lots of trees: piaget: what makes the wind on the ocean, julia: it blows there from the land. Piaget was trained as a biologist and as a philosopher: piaget"s view of the intellectual development of the child reflected an interaction between biology and experience, principles of knowledge: Seek the organization by which the child understands the world. Identify the functional significance of knowledge (that is, knowledge allows a child to adapt to the world)
