HDP 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Jean Piaget, Cognitive Psychology, Animism
3 Nov 2016
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Lecture 8 - october 18, 2016 - week 4. Biological/physical domain - brain and hormonal influences, sensory, perceptual and motor capacities, physical health and wellness, processes of aging, physical development. Cognitive domain - intellectual abilities, including attention, memory, academic and everyday knowledge, problem solving, imagination, creativity, language. Social and emotional domain - emotional communication, self-understanding, knowledge about other people, interpersonal skills, friendships, intimate relationships, moral reasoning and behavior: cognitive psychology. Cognitive psychology - study of thought, from mechanisms to consequences. Cognitive development - age (or experience) related changes in how people think, solve problems, speak. Jean piaget - developed theory of cognitive development. Observed children at different ages, gave them directed tasks to perform identified 5 mechanisms of development identified 4 stages of development thinking characterized by adaptation and organization. Children actively construct knowledge as they manipulate and explore world. Progress through stages is invariant: mechanisms. Exploration - children learn from active exploration of their environment.
