PSY210H1 Lecture Notes - Lev Vygotsky, Cultural-Historical Psychology, Statistical Hypothesis Testing
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If our brains were simple enough for us to understand, we"d be so simple that we couldn"t. ian stewart. Human brain = simple most adaptive biological tool ever developed. As we gain these cog abilities, able to solve everything they relate to. Constructivist: children actively create own reality: disagreed w skinner (says no free will, all envt, passive, ppl"s sensory perceptions not similar, is subjective. Every indiv interprets envt stimuli in dif way: envt irrelevant, children try to learn as much as possible about world, thru: System of equilibrium & disequilibrium (when learn things we disagree w: equilibriation. Scheme: a mental structure that organizes info: cognitive representations, types of info called upon to solve problems, ex. Adaptation: children learn thru interaction w envt: used to deal w dis"eqm, assimilation: new experiences distorted to fit schema eqm. 1999 thought world ending in 2000, but didn"t.
