PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Falsifiability, Developmental Psychology, Lev Vygotsky

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Ingrid Johnsrude

Document Summary

Helps us organize, predict, and make sense of the world. Frame how people look at the world, interpret situations and make decisions. Piaget schema, 4 stages, little scientists. Core knowledge kids are born with sophisticated cognitive tools. Vygotsky socio-cultural, zone of proximal development, social scaffolding. Human development is complex, varied, fascination, exciting. While piaget was wrong about many things he was right about others. Little scientists the mistakes that children make sound experiment, squelching, different perspectives. Explains development through interactions between children and the settings in which they live. Every level has an effect bidirectional. View children as social beings who are influenced by the cultures in which they live. Range of tasks child can perform with help of someone more skilled. Use of conversations, external and internal, to guide the learning. Adult provides problem-solving methods until child can perform independently. May also be used by child with peers.