PSY 2105 Study Guide - Final Guide: Emergentism, Connectionism, Joint Attention
10 Oct 2017
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What is cognition: virtually everything we do involves mental processes, or cognitive functioning, cognition = higher-order mental processes; thinking, reasoning, learning and problem solving by which humans attempt to understand and adapt to their world. Who is jean piaget: became interested in how children think and reason, he noticed that young children answered questions differently than older children. Piaget"s cognitive theory: piaget viewed cognitive development as qualitative rather than quantitative, process vs. content, children at different ages know not only different amounts of information but also looked at the world in different ways. Intelligence is a process not something that a child has but something that a: mental growth results from adjusting internal concepts (schemes) to match, the child constantly constructs and re-constructs his/her own model the external environment. A constructivist approach of reality child does: often labeled constructivist because it depicts children as constructing knowledge for themselves, metaphor of child as a scientist.
