PSY210H1 Lecture Notes - Long-Term Memory, Connectionism, Urie Bronfenbrenner
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Cognition, we mean all the higher-order mental processes by which humans attempt to understand and adapt to their world processes that go by such labels as thinking, reasoning, learning, and problem solving. Infants and children are far more competent than we used to believe. Cognitive- developmental (piagetian and information-processing) and the socio-cultural approach should serve as complementary rather than contradictory, and that a full model of cognitive development requires insights gained from all three approaches. Piaget"s goal throughout his career was to use the study of children to answer basic philosophical questions about the nature and origins of knowledge. From biology, piaget took ideas about both the structure and the function of intelligence. A basic principle in biology is that of organization (highly organized systems) For piaget, the essence of intelligence does not lie m individually learned responses or isolated memories; the essence lies in the underlying organization.
