PSYC 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Lev Vygotsky, Personal Fable, Cognitive Inhibition
30 Mar 2014
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Piagetian approach: looks at origin of knowledge, looks at wrong answers, looks at changes in quality of schemes with thinking, schemes (organized way of thinking) Knowledge construction: adaptation: how kids handle new info, assimilation: use current schemes to interpret new info, accommodation: adjust existing exhumes to fit new info. Equilibrium: balance b/w assimilation and accommodation: organization: arranges & links new schemes to other schemes. Tertiary circular reactions (12-18m: repeating old skills with new objects -- dropping diff stuff, mental representation (18-24m, beginning of symbolic thinking (crown achievement of infancy, mentally work through problems. Object permanence: object continues to exist when it is not present. Develops during sensorimotor stage: 2 errors: a not b error (tendency to search for object when they last found it, rather where they most recently saw it) *** frontal lobe is still developing: error due to invisible displacement: inability to make inferences about objects location when they can"t visibly track object.
