PSYC 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Tabula Rasa, Language Disorder, Phoneme

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The study of the inner processes of our mind. Attending, remembering, synthesizing, symbolizing, categorizing, planning, reasoning. Viewed psychology through a constructivist lens, as it depicts children as constructing knowledge for themselves. Children are seen as active; little scientists. Learn many important lessons on their own. Born with this innate desire to learn; not a blank slate. Again this is what makes them active in their development. Higher order mental processes that help us understand and adapt to our environment. All about understanding the nature of children"s knowledge. Sees these two as working together: innate desire to learn, then two major processes need to occur in the environment: Adaptation: respond to the demands of the environment. Organization: integrate particular observations into coherent knowledge. Mental structures that organize experiences into categories and conceptual models of knowledge. A stereotype; a preconceived notion of how we expect things to appear or behave.

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