PSY 2401 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Reinforcement, General Idea, Perceptual Learning
17 Sep 2018
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Are we creating children facts or to be innovative and creative throughout life: believed that children should interact with the world on their own and that"s how they come to learn. Critical questions the theory addresses: how do humans come to know things about the world? o. Piaget"s overarching view: development is constructive: child"s own activity helps construct knowledge. "on the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects. " What gets "constructed": acting on the world and getting to know it, piaget is a very stage-like theorist, yet this is a very continuous process. Having a very general idea of what something is, and as you learn and experience more you begin to modify those mental representations i. e. birds: used to make sense of experience. Interacting with world: using schemes to make sense of the world.
