PSY 3105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cultural Psychology, Preadolescence, Great Range
21 Apr 2016
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Children of different ages think differently, and changes in cognitive development proceed in distinct stages (each stage involves a different way of thinking about the world) His approach is known as the cognitive-developmental approach because of his focus on how cognition changes with age. The driving forces behind development from one stage to the next is maturation (an active process) Children seek out information and stimulation in the environment that matches the maturity of their thinking (in contrast with behaviorism, which views the environment as acting on the child through rewards and punishments) Schemes are structures for organizing and interpreting information. The two processes involved in the use of schemes are: Assimilation occurs when new information is altered to fit an existing scheme. Accommodation entails changing the scheme to adapt to the new information. 0 2 coordinate activities of the senses with motor activities. Capable of symbolic representation, such as language, but. 2 7 limited ability to use mental operations.
