PSYC 2110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Object Permanence, Cognitive Development
10 Apr 2014
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Genetic epistemology- the experimental study of the origin of knowledge or in this case development. Piaget had taken large sample sizes of young children and used the clinical method of question and answer technique. Intelligence is believed to be the basic life function that helps the organism (or the individual) adapt to its environment (or culture) It is a form of equilibrium a relationship between one"s thought processes and the environment. ^ this is the view of an interactionist model mismatches between internal mental schemes (patterns or actions of behavior) and the external environment stimulate cognitive activity and intellectual growth. If children are to know something- they must be able to construct that knowledge themselves. Children"s own interpretation of reality are based solely on the information that they already have there more immature the child"s cognitive system then the more limited his/her interpretation will be. How we gain knowledge: cognitive processes and schemes.
