PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lev Vygotsky, Stuffed Toy, 6 Years
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For you and me our thoughts about the world and people within it are our constant companion, and we think about these things in a relatively automatic way. This emphasizes the importance of a responsive world and linking all this back to the issue of consciousness (ie: crying). He noticed that when confronted with difficult problems, children of the same age made precisely the same mistakes. And as they aged, they stopped making these mistakes at precisely the same time. Cognitive development is the emergence of the ability to think and understand. Between infancy and adulthood, children must come to understand how the physical world works, how their minds represent it, and how other minds represent it. Piaget suggested that cognitive development occurs in four stages: the sensorimotor stage, the preoperational stage, the concrete operational stage, and the formal operational stage. He stressed the importance of operations, schemas, and the processes of assimilation versus accommodation.
