PSY 0310 Lecture Notes - Pragmatics, Easter Bunny, Egocentrism
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Directly opposed freud, who claimed that children were motivated by drives. Piaget was more in line with rousseau and spock. Emphasized curiosity and discovery as human traits that are just as important as anything else: had a negative view of american school, overview of theory, intelligence is a form of biological adaptation. Did not view intelligence in the same way as other theorists (iq and individual differences) Was mainly interested in how kids generally become smarter with age. Adults have knowledge as an adaptation because it helps them survive in their environment: learning is a process of adaptation. Kids get smarter to adapt to the environment that they live in. Assimilation: translating information into a form that they can use with the knowledge that they already have (fitting information into the scheme) Accommodation: changing current knowledge structures in response to new experiences (reorganizing thoughts and rethinking in order to move up to a higher level of thinking: e. g.
