PSYCH 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Lev Vygotsky, Peekaboo
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Human development branches into cognitive and social development. Social will be discussed in class, cognitive will be discussed in section. How we acquire the ability to learn, think, communicate, and remember over time. How we come to make sense of our world. Development across the lifespan is studied (not just babies) Thought development occurred in clear-cut stages with distinct beginnings and ends. Focused on children, thought they made sense of the world through. Assimilation: the process of absorbing new experiences into current knowledge structure (ex: already know what mammals are, just add newly learned animals into that category) Accommodation: process of altering beliefs to make them more compatible with experience, children must totally change their understanding, more difficult process. Learning about world through your senses and motor activities. Lack of object permanence (ex: peekaboo, they don"t understand that you"re still there even when you cover your eyes) Mental representation and deferred imitation, can be assessed by an object permanence test.
