PSY210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Object Permanence, Lev Vygotsky, Social Change
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Theory remains the standard against which all other theories are judged. Piaget believed that nature and nurture interact to yield cognitive development: adaptation tendency to respond to the demands of the environment in a certain way, organization put knowledge into existing structures, continuity. 3 processes work together from birth to propel devilment forward: assimilation integrating reality into ones own view, accommodation changing one"s view to better match reality, discontinuity. Birth 1 month infants begin to modify the reflexes with which they are born to make them more adaptive. Limited to capability of understanding of where objects are placed, have object permanence. Egocentrism child does not realize that people do not see the same thing they see. Cognitive development culminates in the ability to think abstractly. Because he used the same methodology, he often underestimated the age at which people develop. Stage theory assumes too much consistency and not enough variability.
