HDFS 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Jean Piaget, Cognitive Development, Motor Action F.C.
13 Mar 2018
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Immersed in the study of how animals adapt to their environment (darwinism: with birth of his own infants became intrigued by how the infant adapts to its environment, through detailed observation of his infants concluded. Infants plan an active role in their development. Infants develop knowledge by their own actions on environment. In the sensorimotor stage, learning occurs through coordination of sensed reactions with motor actions. Infants use sense of touch/proprioception to organize information about the environment: knowledge is constructed by attention to action/reaction cycles, repetition helps, complexity of what is learned develops with, brain maturation and emerging physical abilities. Increasing memory capacity: for young infants, longer exploratory times --> longer enduring, principles for creating knowledge/schemas memory for schema, adaptation, two processes involved as infants react to most new events/objects, assimilation. Infants responds to new event/object by using existing repertoire of actions: circular reaction: i know how to do that, accommodation.
