PSY E202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Intersubjectivity, Psy, Joint Attention
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Main questions raised: nature vs nurture, continuity/discontinuity. Importance of the social context and the relationship between speech and thought. As children rely on pivots, they can experience the object in which they desire in other forms, aka the pivot. It is an abstract way of thinking and representing it. Development as continuous, with change as quantitative rather than qualitative. We are unique because we are inclined to teach each other and learn from each other. Children start off talking out loud to themselves which evolves into private speech and that is what thought is. Attend to and learn from such teaching. Supports thinking at a higher level than child could do on his/her own. The quality of scaffolding increase with age and experience. Improve education by changing the culture of schools. Main questions raised: nature vs nurture, the active child and how change occurs. 4 stages of piaget: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operations, formal operations.
