PSY230H1 Midterm: Study Notes Midterm 1
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Chapter 11: two kinds of constructive theories: jean piaget & george a. kelly. Genetic epistemology: study of formation & meaning of knowledge. As infants we learn by copying automatic movements. We can observe ourselves doing things & we can sense ourselves doing it. He distinguishes btw copying of an action by internalizing its actual pattern of motion & the copying of an action by internalizing an image of what needs to be done or how its o be carried out. We must 1st act & then learn what we can or cant do. Scheme: most basic structure of action, its what"s common among diff actions at diff times ie. understanding of distance. Idea of moving from static unchanging to change/flexible structure. Syncretic thought: when ppl think in personal, vague unanalyzed schematic structures. There is no structure apart form construction, either abstract or genetic .
