PSY210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Lev Vygotsky, Object Permanence, Cognitive Development
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Chapter 6: theories of cognitive development: cognitive development. Focuses on mental processes associated w/ processes related to acquiring knowledge, reasoning, thinking, sensing, and producing beh. Examines how these processes emerge and change over the lifespan, particularly childhood + adolescence. Focuses on the broad area of cognition but in the context of dev. How emerges and changes over time: key concepts in piaget"s theory. He came up w/ really the first theory of cognitive dev. Children are motivated to make sense of their experiences. Viewed children as playing very active role in their own understanding of the world. Child"s internal motivation is what is driving. Children form and are constantly revising their theories of how world works based on experiences. Views child as playing active role in their cognitive dev. Taking new experiences and assimilating into their theories. Existing theories are modified based on new experiences. If new theories don"t fit existing theories need to modify to account for these.
