PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Object Permanence, Cognitive Development, 18 Months
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Cognition: the mental activity through which human beings acquire and process knowledge (acquire, remember and learn to use knowledge) Jean piaget"s theory of cognitive development: emphasizes developmental changes in the organization or structure of children"s thinking process. Relied on 2 methods to study children thinking: 1) interviews and 2) observations. Main tenet (belief/opinion) = the child actively seeks knowledge = constructivist view development of turning points (approx. Cognitive organization = combination of simple mental structures into more complex systems using schemas that change over time. Operations: schemas based on internal mental activities. Adaption: modify their schemas in relation to their own experiences: assimilation: applying their existing schemas(what they already know), to the new experience, accommodation: modified an existing schema to fir the characteristics of a new experience. These 2 work together to organize children"s knowledge and behaviour into increasingly complex structures cognitive equilibrium.