PSY 3105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Behaviorism, Critical Thinking, Reductionism
29 Sep 2016
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A d o l e s c e n c e : c h a p t e r 3. W e d n e s d a y , s e p t e m b e r 2 1 , 2 0 1 6. Accommodation: changing concepts in response to new information. Changes in cognitive development proceed in distinct stages (e. g. discontinuous) Each person"s cognitive abilities are organized into one coherent mental structure. His approach is known as the cognitive-developmental approach. An important force behind development from one stage to the next is maturation. But need interaction of cognitive level and environment. Cognitive development involves learning how to coordinate activities of the senses with motor activities. Capable of representing the world symbolically (e. g. language) however, still illogical (conservation task) Become more adept at using mental operations which leads to a more advanced understanding of the world (but have trouble with abstract concepts)
