PSYC 2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 38: Jean Piaget
PSYC 2020 Lecture 38 Notes
Introduction
Cognitive perspective
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experience for making Will both happy and successful academically.
• The Cognitive-Developmental Perspective the cognitive-developmental perspective
focuses on how children think and on how their thinking changes as they grow.
• Jean Piaget (1896–1980) proposed the best known of these theories.
• He believed that children naturally try to make sense of their world.
• That is, throughout infancy, childhood, and adolescence, youngsters want to understand
the workings of both the physical and the social world.
• For eaple, ifats at to ko aout ojets: What happes he I push this toy
o" the tale?
• Ad aies at to ko aout people: Who is this perso ho feeds ad ares for
e?
• Piaget argued that as children try to comprehend their world, they act like scientists in
creating theories about the physical and social worlds.
• They try to weave all that they know about objects and people into a complete theory.
• Childre’s theories are tested dail eperiee eause their theories lead the to
expect certain things to happen.
• As with real scientific theories, when the predited eets our, a hild’s elief i her
theory grows stronger.
• When the predicted events do not occur, the child must revise her theory.
• For example, think about the baby in the photo and her theory of objects like the rattle
she’s holdig.
• Her theor of ojets ight ilude the idea that If I let go, the rattle ill fall to the
floor.
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