PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Joint Attention, Dynamical System, Intersubjectivity
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Sociocultural theories: vygotsky, children viewed as social beings and social learners, development seen as continuous, with quantitative change, humans inclined to teach each other and to learn from each other. Interaction with others is a large part of how children learn: these theories don"t have stages in the same way as piaget. Just thinking about what they are doing and don"t need to announce it to everyone/narrate it. Shaping memory: central developmental issues, how the cognitive system organizes itself. Self organization: bringing together and integrating components as needed to adapt to changing environment. Flexible: changes though time in different situations, how the cognitive system changes, variation, using different behaviors that produce the same result. Selection: getting better at using effective behaviors and using less ineffective. Seeing, thinking, and doing in infancy behaviors: perception, motor development. Sensation and perception: vision, auditory perception, taste perception, smell, touch. Intermodal perception: using more than one sense in an activity.
