PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Object Permanence, Zoology, Intentionality
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Cognition the act of knowing; mental processes by which knowledge is acquired, elaborated, stored, retrieved and used to solve problems: attention, sensation and perception, learning, thinking, remembering. Cognitive development changes that occur in mental skills and abilities over time. Structural-functional approach (piaget): emphasizes the biological functions and environmental influences that promote developmental changes in the organization and structure of intelligence. The information-processing approach: focuses on the growth of specific cognitive processing mechanisms, such as perception, attention, memory and so on (all looked at individually: human mind is analogous to computer. Piaget found that children of different ages have fundamentally different thought processes; so he wanted to explore the nature of how children thought: the type of clinical interviews he"d do with children: lots of probing. Piaget developed a theory to understand the changes in intelligence. Intelligence: a basic life force that helps one (in this case children) adapt to environment.
