PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Object Permanence, Involuntary Memory, 18 Months
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Chapter 8 cognitive development: piaget and vygotsky. Cognition used to describe the mental activity through which human beings acquire, remember and learn to use knowledge. Includes many mental processes such as perception, attention, learning, memory and reasoning. Piaget was interested in philosophy; the study of knowledge or epistemology. Alferd binet was working on the development of the first intelligence test. As the thought about the errors, he thought they revealed distinct age-related ways of thinking and understanding the world. To study children"s thinking, piaget relied on interviews and methods: he would present children with a problem to solve or a question to answer and ask them to explain their thinking. Piaget"s main tenet: the child actively seeks knowledge. Children play an active role in acquiring knowledge. In addition when children encounter new information, they actively try to fit in the new knowledge they already possess; they construct their own understanding constructivist view.
