ED PSYCH 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Mirror Neuron, Discovery Learning, Andrew N. Meltzoff

• School: UW-Madison
• Department: Educational Psychology
• Course: ED PSYCH 320
• Professor: Alexandra Puk

Document Summary

Infants do engage in environment before 4 months: 2. A-not-b search error: other factors may be involved, 4. Identified key areas of thinking that change with development. Changed the way we think about infants and children: profound influence on early childhood education; child centered focused, discovery learning, use of manipulates. Imitation: powerful method of learning, andrew meltzoff: newborns imitate as much as older children & adults, mirror (cid:374)euro(cid:374)s e(cid:374)a(cid:271)le us to o(cid:271)ser(cid:448)e a(cid:374)other perso(cid:374)"s (cid:271)eha(cid:448)ior (cid:449)hile simulating that behavior in our own brain, core knowledge perspective. Infants are born with core knowledge in several domains of thought: physical knowledge linguistic knowledge, numerical knowledge, psychological knowledge, findings controversial, but all acknowledge the importance of experience. Infants have basic memory capabilities: they can distinguish new stimuli from old stimuli. I(cid:374)fa(cid:374)ts" (cid:373)e(cid:373)ory i(cid:374)(cid:272)rease as they get older: memories move from highly context- dependent to increasingly context-free. Infantile amnesia: most of us cannot recall events before age 3.