CAS PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Barbara Rogoff, Cultural-Historical Psychology, Developmental Psychology

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 101
• Professor: Natalie Emmons

Document Summary

First person to really look at how thinking progresses across development. Looked at the cognitive reasons behind why children get certain questions wrong on iq tests. He realized that children"s views are different from those of adults. Children go through 4 stages of development. Each stage builds on the previous one through two learning processes: Start out with schemas: units of knowledge that have meaning. Assimilation: the process by which we place new information into an existing schema. Accommodation: the process by which new schemas are created or drastically revised to include new information that otherwise would not fit into the schema. Ex: children may initially believe that the world is flat because of their own experiences, and only through formal schooling do they learn that the earth is actually a sphere. Infants acquire information about the world through their senses and motor skills. Innate reflexes develop into more deliberate actions through the development of schemas.