PSY 3105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Egocentrism, Intelligence Quotient, Reductionism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3105
• Professor: Philip Wall

Document Summary

Accomodation: changing concepts in response to new information. Changes in cognitive development proceed in distinct stages (e. g discontinuos) Each person"s cognitive abilities are organized into one coherent mental structure. His approach is known as cognitive-developmental approach. The driving forces behind development from one stage to the next is maturation. Occurs when new information is altered to fit an existing scheme. Entails changing the scheme to adapt to the new information. Sensorimotor (0-2) : cognitive development involves learning how to coordinates activities of the sense with motor activities. Preoperational (2-7) : capable of representing the world symbolically ( eg language) Concrete operations (7-11) : become more adept at using mental operation which leads to a more advances understanding of the world. Formal operations ( 11-15/20 : allows adolescents to reason about more complex tasks and problems involving multiple variable. Adolescents are aware of their thinking processes. The capacity for thinking about thinking enables adolescents to learn and solve problems more efficiently.