Psychology 2040A/B Lecture Notes - Cultural-Historical Psychology, Logical Truth, Intersubjectivity

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2040A/B
• Professor: Jackie Sullivan

Document Summary

Chapter six: cognitive development: piagetian, core knowledge & vygotskian perspectives. Because piaget viewed children as discovering, or constructing, virtually all knowledge about their world through their own activity, his theory is the constructivist approach to cognitive development. Believed that children moved through 4 stages: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational & formal operational, where they changed behaviours. Stage sequence has 3 important features: stages provide a general theory of development, the stages are invariant (occur in fixed order, the stages are universal. Piaget regarded the order as biological but that the individual differences were guided by genetics & environment. Piaget thought that specific psychological structures, schemas organized ways of making sense of experience changed with age. The transition from sensorimotor approach to the world to the cognitive approach is based on mental representation internal depictions of information that the mind can manipulate (most powerful ones are images mental pictures of objects, etc. & concepts where similar objects are grouped)