PSYC 4010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Personal Construct Theory, Egocentrism, Cognitive Psychology
15 Apr 2013
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Chapter 4 pg 60-79 the child as a philosopher. Popper mind-body dualism: 3 worlds physical, mental, world of intelligible, world 1 physical reality; 5 senses, world 2 inner world of thoughts, feelings and emotions; introspection, world 3 logic and mathematics. Man might be seen as an incipient scientist: each individual man formulates in his own way constructs through which he views the world of events. Cognitive psychology mental representations, symbols and computations. Stage theory of development: a period of formation and progressive organization of mental operations, the progressive hierarchical development of one stage upon another, relative similarity on the attainment of each stage. Clinical interviews too subjective and value-laden. Complexity and messiness of cognitive development in details. 3 tenets: children develop from an impoverished beginning state. Research suggests that, in fact, the young infant is highly competent: there are global discontinuities in cognition across stages. In fact, there is evidence of early precursors to abilities: cognitive growth is monolithic.
