PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes -Animism, Cognitive Development, Egocentrism
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Cognition the term used to describe the mental activity through which human beings acquire, remember, and learn to use knowledge. It includes many mental processes: perception, attention, learning, memory, and reasoning. Focuses on how and when intellectual abilities and knowledge of the world first emerge in childhood. How does it change as a person grows older. There are three approaches to the study of cognitive development: jean piaget"s theory. It emphasizes developmental changes in the organization or structure of children"s thinking process: lev vygotsky"s sociocultural theory. It suggests that a child"s interactions with the social world produce advances in thinking and understanding. This view concentrates on how people use their cognitive abilities to process information and carry out intelligent actions. Began his own research at a young age. By 10, he published his first scholarly article on the rare albino sparrow. Used to work in alfred binet"s laboratory: Binet"s team was working on developing the first intelligence test.
