PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Lev Vygotsky, Peekaboo, Jean Piaget

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Dwayne Pare

Document Summary

Piaget did not conduct formal experiments, but rather loosely structured interviews in which he posed problem for children to solve, observed their actions carefully, and questioned them about their solutions. He was particularly interested in children"s error, which would provide insight into children"s thought processes. He assumed that a child is an active seeker of knowledge and gains and understanding of the world by operating on it. Sometimes it is hard for children to solve problems, and this isn"t because of lack of intelligence but rather they haven"t reached some milestone. The errors were common among a particular age group. Organized units of knowledge about objects, events, and actions. Assimilations is the interpretation of new experience in terms of present schemas. Accommodations is the modifications of present schemes to fit with new experience. For example, a child may call all four-legged creatures doggie .