PSY 302 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Visual Acuity, Depth Perception, Cultural-Historical Psychology
13 May 2015
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Advantages of knowing about developmental theories: provides a framework for understanding important phenomena, raise crucial questions about human nature, lead to better understanding of children. Mentally and physically active from the moment of birth. Activity greatly contributes to their own development. His approach for cognitive development is labelled constructivist depicts children as. Three important constructive processes are: constructing knowledge for themselves in response to their experiences: generating hypotheses, performing experiments, drawing conclusions from observations. Three basic assumptions: children are active, learn many important lessons on their own, rather than depending on instructions from, intrinsically motivated to learn and do not need rewards from other people parents and older children. Nature and nurture interact to produce cognitive development. Nurturing is every experience a child encounters, not just those provided by parents and caregivers. Nature incl. children"s maturation of brain and body; their ability to perceive, act, and learn from experience; organization tendency to integrate particular observations into coherent knowledge.
