PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Falsifiability, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Lev Vygotsky
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Help us organize, predict, make sense of the world. Frame how people look @ the world, interpret situations, and make decisions. Aren"t falsifiable; more of a framework: bronfenbrenner. How people develop based on their continuous interactions within their environment levels. Reciprocal determinism--> interacting w/ environment and the resulting environment interacting w/ the person. Children form schema that is constantly re-evaluated to understand the world. Eg. 20 month old playing in mud puddle, using hands and such--> discovery of environment; exploration: vygotsky. Zone of proximal development: range of tasks child can perform w/ help of someone more skilled; use of conversations, external and internal, to guide the learning (eg. older kids, teachers, peers, etc. ) Social scaffolding: adult provides problem-solving methods until child can perform independently; may also be used by child w/ peers: core knowledge theory. People born w/ sophisticated cognitive tools: theory theory.