PSYC2010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Intersubjectivity, Imaginary Audience, Animism
24 Feb 2017
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Cognition: the inner processes and products of the mind that lead to knowing. it includes all mental activity attending, remembering, symbolizing, categorizing, planning, reasoning, problem solving, creating, and fantasizing. Constructivist approach: piaget"s view of cognitive development, in which children discover, or construct, virtually all knowledge about their world through their own activity. Piaget suggests four stages of a child"s cognitive development: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational. The stages provide a general theory of development. The stages are invariant, meaning they always occur in the same order and a stage cannot be skipped, but some children may move through them at differing rates than others. The stages are universal, meaning they are assumed to t children globally. Says schemes (organized ways of making sense of experience) change with age. Mental representations are internal depictions of information that the mind can manipulate, such as mental images and concepts. Equilibration: the back-and-forth movement between equilibrium and disequilibrium.
